Whitepaper

API Security – A Brief Introduction

APIs Today and Tomorrow

Based on market research including input from various industry analysts, it is estimated that in 2021 and 2022 APIs will be the most widely used attack vector on companies and data. With the number of APIs in use growing rapidly, companies must take action to ensure that they are protected, with API security.

What is API Security, and why has it become so important?

API security includes a broad set of design decisions, technical security mechanisms and the overall API management structure to protect APIs, plus the API gateway, backend systems and their provided services – for both the provide and consume use cases of APIs.