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By Wallarm
With a high-stakes battle between OpenAI and its alleged Chinese rival, DeepSeek, API security was catapulted to priority number one in the AI community today. According to multiple reports, OpenAI and Microsoft have been investigating whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI’s API to train its own AI models.
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By Wallarm
By now, you will almost certainly be aware of the transformative impact artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are having on the world. What you may not be aware of, however, is the role Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are playing in the AI revolution. The bottom line is that APIs are critical to AI systems – but they are also a major reason why AI systems are vulnerable to abuse. In this blog, we’ll explore why API security is critical for the safe and ethical deployment of AI.
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By Wallarm
Implementing API authentication is one of the most critical stages of API design and development. Properly implemented authentication protects data, user privacy, and other resources while streamlining compliance, preventing fraud, and establishing accountability. In fact, broken authentication is one of the leading causes of API-related breaches.
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By Wallarm
APIs are the backbone of modern digital ecosystems, but their misuse can expose systems to cyber threats. Effective API throttling not only optimizes performance but also acts as a critical defense mechanism against abuse, such as denial-of-service attacks. Discover how this powerful strategy enhances API security and safeguards your organization’s data in an interconnected world.
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By Wallarm
The modern world relies on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). They allow applications to communicate with each other, servers, and consumers to facilitate data sharing and simplify application development. Without them, the internet would be unrecognizable. However, APIs also present a considerable risk to organizations. If left unsecured, they can be a gateway for attackers to access critical data and services. Protecting APIs is extraordinarily important, but it can be expensive.
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By Wallarm
Recent advances in AI technologies have granted organizations and individuals alike unprecedented productivity, efficiency, and operational benefits. AI is, without question, the single most exciting emerging technology in the world. However, it also brings enormous risks. While the dystopian, AI-ruled worlds of sci-fi films are a long way off, AI is helping cyber threat actors launch attacks at a hitherto unknown scale and level of sophistication. But what are AI-powered attacks?
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By Wallarm
APIs have become the backbone of modern digital ecosystems, powering everything from mobile apps to e-commerce platforms. However, as APIs grow in importance, they also become prime targets for malicious actors. Increasingly, bots are being weaponized to exploit vulnerabilities, overwhelm systems, and siphon sensitive data—all without triggering alarms until it’s too late.
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By Wallarm
API abuse and web application bot attacks are often confused. This is understandable, as both involve automated interactions and are usually executed by bots. Both attack vectors are prevalent; criminals are always eager to disrupt the foundations on which businesses base their operations to achieve their malicious goals and they frequently automate their actions for maximum results.
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By Wallarm
APIs are the backbone of interconnected applications, enabling organizations to innovate, integrate, and scale rapidly. However, as enterprises continue to expand their digital ecosystems, they often encounter a common and complex challenge: API sprawl. Unchecked, API sprawl can lead to increased security risks, inefficient resource utilization, and the frustrating experience of redundant or hard-to-locate services across teams. Postman details the explosive growth in APIs in their State of API report.
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By Wallarm
There is no doubt that attackers have shifted their attention to APIs. Wallarm’s API ThreatStats research identifies that 70% of attacks now target APIs instead of Web Applications. While APIs have become the backbone of innovation and connectivity for businesses, they have also introduced a vast attack surface that’s challenging to defend with traditional methods alone.
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By Wallarm
Discover how Wallarm empowers users to respond to API attacks with actionable tools. Learn how to create custom rules, manage false positives, and explore attacks through seamless navigation between API sessions and attack views. Simplify API security with Wallarm’s advanced features.
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By Wallarm
Learn how flexible filtering and session context improve API security. Wallarm enables deep analysis of attacks, from failed logins to SQL injections, using response codes and request types. Discover why session context is essential for identifying and preventing threats.
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By Wallarm
Learn how attack context, from SQL injections to brute force attempts, improves API security. Wallarm detects threats like login manipulation and uses filters to block attacks, providing deeper insights into API sessions.
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By Wallarm
API session context is key to understanding and mitigating threats. Wallarm configures session identifiers for precise analysis, providing a full picture of attacks and enhancing security insights.
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By Wallarm
Attackers now exploit APIs for rapid data breaches, taking advantage of a 96% rise in API-related vulnerabilities. Learn how realized risks (breaches) differ from unrealized risks (vulnerabilities) and why APIs are top targets. Stay informed on API security trends.
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By Wallarm
As we enter the new year, the API security landscape continues to evolve. The volume and complexity of APIs attacks has increased. CISOs and security teams should evaluate their current tools and programs for changes. In this webinar, we bring together CISOs to discuss what changes and threats should be considered in API security programs for the new year. Together, we’ll examine and discuss.
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By Wallarm
API architects play a critical role in building secure systems by applying proactive controls to prevent vulnerabilities. Their approach focuses on designing APIs with security as a foundation, ensuring stronger protection for every system.
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By Wallarm
API security is the foundation of AI protection. Learn how LLM risks, sensitive data leaks, and API vulnerabilities impact AI systems.
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By Wallarm
Learn the critical differences between client-side and server-side API vulnerabilities and their impact: What distinguishes client-side API vulnerabilities from server-side risks. How client-side vulnerabilities originate on the backend but impact end users. Why securing client-side APIs is essential to protect user data from attacks.
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By Wallarm
EBPF is a Why direct kernel access through EBPF creates critical vulnerabilities. Insights into security issues like CrowdStrike kernel panics and CIUM exploits. How EBPF is emerging as a key attack vector in modern cybersecurity.
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By Wallarm
The main task of the run-time application security is to protect modern applications and APIs. In this endeavor the solutions face a number of challenges: Download this whitepaper to learn how Wallarm solves the difficult task of effective application security by relying on AI and machine learning including a unique combination of hierarchical clusterization, statistical n-gram based models, recurrent neural networks and reinforcement learning.
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By Wallarm
Attack detection is critical for most security solutions, whether we are talking about a load balancer-based (NIDS, WAF), host-based or in-application solutions (HIDS, RASP). Interestingly, regardless of the differences in architecture and data flow, most solutions use similar detection principles and techniques. We will explore how the detection architecture evolved over time and how the new generation of detection logic, such as the architecture implemented by Wallarm, is principally different from that of the legacy solutions.
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By Wallarm
In this comprehensive Q2-2023 report, we reflect on an intensified API threat landscape, underlining prevalent threat vectors, susceptible APIs, and new dimensions in the API security arena. With the inclusion of bug bounty analysis and our inaugural API Security Awards, this report provides granular insights into the current state of API security.
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By Wallarm
The following guidelines will help senior stakeholders set strategy to secure modern applications, learning: Applications are the operational mechanism for how a modern enterprise conducts transactions and uses data. Whether internal or customer-facing, apps are critical for your successful business operations. That means securing apps should be a business priority.
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By Wallarm
This 2022 recap report looks back at the deteriorating API threat landscape, the most prevalent types of threat vectors, the most vulnerable types of APIs, and much more to provide API security and DevOps teams the data-driven insights needed to improve API security in 2023. One of the main take-aways is that the API threat landscape is becoming ever more dangerous. We make this assessment based on the 2022 data, and specifically these four trends.
- January 2025 (10)
- December 2024 (10)
- November 2024 (15)
- October 2024 (15)
- September 2024 (16)
- August 2024 (9)
- July 2024 (7)
- June 2024 (5)
- May 2024 (4)
- April 2024 (4)
- March 2024 (7)
- February 2024 (3)
- January 2024 (5)
- December 2023 (2)
- November 2023 (5)
- October 2023 (3)
- September 2023 (11)
- August 2023 (8)
- June 2023 (2)
- May 2023 (1)
- April 2023 (2)
- March 2023 (5)
- February 2023 (1)
- January 2023 (2)
Security and DevOps teams choose Wallarm to discover all cloud-native APIs and legacy web applications running in their environment, and to detect & respond to threats against them.
Whether you need to protect your brand-new cloud-native APIs or your legacy web apps, Wallarm API Security platform delivers all the capabilities to secure your business against emerging threats.
Comprehensive Protection for APIs and Web Applications:
- Coverage: Protect all your internal and public-facing APIs & web applications regardless of protocol across your entire infrastructure to ensure comprehensive protection.
- Detection: Identify, consolidate and prioritize advanced risks – including OWASP Top-10 risks, API-specific threats, and API abuse – to improve security team effectiveness and reduce workload.
- Response: Assess and remediate any weaknesses which expose you to attack and automatically add new against any further breaches.
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