In recent years, there has been a significant rise in the number of API attacks, posing a growing threat to businesses and organizations across various industries. APIs, or application programming interfaces, have become essential for enabling communication and data exchange between different software systems. However, this increased reliance on APIs has also made them an attractive target for cybercriminals.

API security is a pressing concern for industries undergoing digital transformation, and none more so than financial services and insurance.

When we started to build Bearer, we wanted to understand how to validate the quality of our findings and be able to benchmark it. Code security scanning solutions are notorious for reporting a lot of false positives and other deficiencies, and even though we believed we could do much better, we needed a way to prove it. In Java, there is an OWASP project, BenchmarkJava, which makes it easy to compare the output of two software security solutions.