Security News > 2022 > September > 6 Top API Security Risks! Favored Targets for Attackers If Left Unmanaged

Paying attention to your API calls is important to avoid passing duplicate or repeated requests to the API. When two deployed APIs try to use the same URL, it can cause repetitive and redundant API usage problems.

DDoS API attacks target not only your servers where the APIs are running but also each API endpoint.

You don't want to open your API too broadly and create security risks.

The primary reason APIs are vulnerable to this risk is that the API developer fails to sanitize the input before it turns up in the API code.

For API protection to work, it needs to be fully dedicated to API security.

The holistic Web Application & API Protection platform comes with the trinity of behaviour analysis, security-centric monitoring, and API management to keep malicious actions on APIs at bay.

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