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Imagine you just got a new car with a feature that automatically adjusts the air conditioning based on live weather forecasts. To activate it, you need to connect the car to an external weather service. You could take it to the garage, pay someone to configure it, and wait for the job to be done. Or, you could use a built-in assistant that asks you two simple questions and shows you how to set everything up in minutes. That’s the idea behind Cato’s new API Assistant.

Over the last year, I’ve spent countless hours with CISOs, CTOs, and security architects talking about a new wave of technology that’s changing the game faster than anything we’ve seen before: Agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. If you think AI is still in the “cool demos and pilot projects” stage, think again. We’re already seeing autonomous agents reasoning, remembering, and taking actions in live production environments.

Unrestricted Resource Consumption (API4:2023) is the only threat category in the OWASP API Security Top 10 explicitly dedicated to Denial of Service (DoS) and resource abuse. But despite being just one category, attackers can exploit it in many different ways; from large file uploads and expensive GraphQL queries to abuse of metered third-party services like SMS gateways or AI/LLM APIs.

The release of a new KuppingerCole Leadership Compass is always a significant event for the cybersecurity industry, offering a vendor-neutral view of the market's current state. The 2025 edition, focusing on API Security and Management, is critical as it arrives at a pivotal moment for technology. It clearly presents a fact many organizations are just beginning to understand: the crucial connection between the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the necessity for robust API security.

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solutions have become increasingly vital in today’s cybersecurity strategies, providing essential defenses against attacks targeting web applications and APIs. It’s no surprise that APIs are growing in popularity, with 80% of companies reporting that more than half of their applications depend on APIs—a figure projected to reach 88% within the next 24 months (ESG Research, 2025).