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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
There’s no doubt that API security is a hot topic these days. The continued growth in API-related breaches and increase in publicized API vulnerabilities has pushed API security to the top of CISO’s lists. The tools in the market for API security still have room for improvement, of course. One of the challenges security practitioners face with APIs is understanding the context in which an attack took place.
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By Wallarm
API attacks can be costly. Really costly. Obvious financial impacts like legal fines, stolen finances, and incident response budgets can run into the hundreds of millions. However, other hidden costs often compound the issue, especially if you’re not expecting them. This article will explore the obvious and hidden costs of API breaches, their long-term business impacts, and how you can communicate the importance of API security to business stakeholders and decision-makers.
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By Wallarm
AI and APIs have a symbiotic relationship. APIs power AI by providing the necessary data and functionality, while AI enhances API security through advanced threat detection and automated responses. In 2023, 83% of Internet traffic traveled through APIs, but there was a 21% increase in API-related vulnerabilities in Q3 2024, severely impacting AI. The relationship between AI and APIs expands capabilities while simultaneously increasing potential vulnerabilities.
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By Wallarm
In a concerning trend, cybercriminals are leveraging DocuSign's APIs to send fake invoices that appear strikingly authentic. Unlike traditional phishing scams that rely on deceptively crafted emails and malicious links, these incidents use genuine DocuSign accounts and templates to impersonate reputable companies, catching users and security tools off guard.
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By Wallarm
Recently, a critical API vulnerability in FortiManager (CVE-2024-47575) was disclosed. Certain threat actors exploited it in the wild to steal sensitive information containing configurations, IP addresses, and credentials used by managed devices. In advanced notification emails, Fortinet warned its users of the vulnerability and mitigation steps. The vulnerability has a critical severity rating of 9.8 out of 10.
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By Wallarm
False positives in API security are a serious problem, often resulting in wasted results and time, missing real threats, alert fatigue, and operational disruption. Fortunately, however, emerging technologies like machine learning (ML) can help organizations minimize false positives and streamline the protection of their APIs. Let's examine how.
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By Wallarm
Wallarm’s Security Edge is setting a new standard in API security—far beyond the reach of traditional Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Let’s get it straight: Security Edge is not just a new addition to the API security market; it’s a disruption. Designed to deliver fast, effective, and advanced API protection where APIs need it, Wallarm’s Security Edge targets what CDNs cannot.
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By Wallarm
Passwordless authentication for end users is taking the world by storm, offering organizations and individuals alike unprecedented security, user experience, and efficiency benefits. By all indications, the next generation of authentication for end users has finally arrived, sending the password the way of the dodo. Although they don’t get anywhere near the same hype, advanced authentication strategies for APIs are as critical as passwordless authentication for end-users.
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By Wallarm
In this video, we examine two significant API security failures, each with devastating consequences. The first breach used a simple trial-and-error method, exploiting broken access control to impact 10 million users. In the Dell example, API abuse exploited a lack of validation and rate limiting, allowing an attacker, posing as a partner, to scrape 49 million records over several weeks. These cases highlight the importance of robust API security practices, especially for business processes and access control. Watch to learn key takeaways on protecting APIs from similar attacks.
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By Wallarm
Broken access controls are one of the leading causes of API breaches. Learn how weak access control can leave your data exposed, as we explore real-world examples and share insights on protecting sensitive information. Strengthen your API access controls to safeguard against unauthorized access and potential breaches!
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By Wallarm
What does a successful API security program look like? Discover the essential indicators that every organization should monitor, from inventory control to continuous monitoring and anomaly detection. Learn how these key metrics can safeguard your APIs and ensure your defenses are ready for emerging threats!
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By Wallarm
API attacks don't always occur in a single request, and more sophisticated attacks require additional context. Whether it's account takeover or scraping, understanding the behavior of an attacker across a session is key to accurate detection and effective investigation. Today, organizations often lack the ability to delve into the details of specific API sessions. Data is spread across multiple tools, or simply unavailable. The Wallarm platform allows users to seamlessly navigate between attack detections and the surrounding session data to fully understand the behavior and interactions involved.
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By Wallarm
With the dramatic rise in API threats, API Security is a must-have security control for large and small organizations. Securing your APIs requires a clear understanding of your infrastructure and technology stack. In this webinar, we'll explore the requirements, best practices, and pitfalls of deploying an API Security platform, including: Join Wallarm experts with vast experience deploying API security across different types of infrastructure for the informative presentation.
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By Wallarm
API threats against AI are on the rise. The Wallarm Research team has researched and dissected the top API threats from the 3rd quarter of 2024. This report explores the top significant threats, notable API breaches, identifies key trends, and provides actionable insights that can help you strengthen your API Security program.
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By Wallarm
In this video, we showcase Wallarm’s advanced API security features, designed to protect against common threats like SQL injection, GraphQL-specific vulnerabilities, and more.
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By Wallarm
In this video, we explore a real-world example of a GraphQL exploit that exposed 30 million user accounts to attackers. Learn how vulnerabilities in GraphQL led to access token generation and account takeovers, and what this means for API security.
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By Wallarm
In this video, we break down the key differences between REST APIs and GraphQL, helping you understand which one is the best fit for your project. Learn how each API works, their strengths, and when to choose one over the other.
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By Wallarm
In this video, we dive into the fundamentals of API security by comparing two key security models: Positive and Negative. Learn how each model works, their pros and cons, and how to choose the right one to protect your APIs effectively.
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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.
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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.
Protect Apps in a Cloud-Native Era.