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Security and data analytics company Sumo Logic disclosed a security breach after discovering that its AWS account was compromised last week.The company detected evidence of the breach on Friday, November 3, after discovering that an attacker used stolen credentials to gain access to a Sumo Logic AWS account.
An ongoing Cloudflare outage has taken down many of its products, including the company's dashboard and related application programming interfaces customers use to manage and read service configurations. The complete list of services whose functionality is wholly or partially impacted includes the Cloudflare dashboard, the Cloudflare API, Logpush, WARP / Zero Trust device posture, Stream API, Workers API, and the Alert Notification System.
While application development has evolved rapidly, the API management suites used to access these services remain a spooky reminder of a different era. Introducing new API management...
APIs, also known as application programming interfaces, serve as the backbone of modern software applications, enabling seamless communication and data exchange between different systems and...
Introduction In today's interconnected digital ecosystem, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play a pivotal role in enabling seamless communication and data exchange between various...
The rise of API use has also led to an increase in the number of API breaches. For these reasons, it's essential to implement robust security measures to protect your APIs, and the data traversing them, to prevent breaches from occurring.
While APIs are essential to many operations and used extensively, a lack of prioritization and understanding is leading us towards a growing API security crisis, according to a report by Traceable AI and Ponemon Institute. Plus, 57% of respondents feel traditional security solutions, including web application firewalls, can't effectively distinguish genuine from fraudulent API activity.
The OWASP API Security Project leaders had their work cut out when deciding how to group and prioritize the threats. It no longer makes sense to monitor for API attacks and bot attacks separately: bot mitigation has to become part of API security.
In this Help Net Security video, Andy Hornegold, Product Lead at Intruder, dives into API security and explores how several recent high-profile breaches were caused by simple failings - which didn't require sophisticated security to prevent. The number of APIs is increasing year on year as more organizations are building APIs to facilitate automation.
API security isn't solely the responsibility of IT security professionals. Your API gateways, WAFs, and other security technologies and infrastructure should work with the API contract to provide seamless CI/CD integration and automation across the software and API lifecycle.