Security News > 2022 > March > Attacks abusing programming APIs grew over 600% in 2021
Security analysts warn of a sharp rise in API attacks over the past year, with most companies still following inadequate practices to tackle the problem.
More specifically, Salt Security reports a growth of 681% of API attack traffic in 2021, while the overall API traffic increased by 321%. These stats underline that as industries adopt API solutions, attacks against them are growing disproportionally.
The risks of these attacks are large-scale and dire, which is why 62% of respondents in Salt Security's survey have delayed the deployment of applications due to API security concerns.
Reality has shown that most API attacks exploit logic flaws that become evident only when the applications enter the runtime phase.
34% of companies lack any API security strategy, so they rely solely on the vendor of the API solution.
Define a robust API security strategy for the entire lifecycle of APIs.