The Myth of "Known APIs": Why Inventory-First Security Models Are Already Obsolete
You probably think the security mantra “you can’t protect what you don’t know about” is an inarguable truth. But you would be wrong. It doesn’t hold water in today’s threat landscape. Of course, it sounds reasonable. Before you secure APIs, you must first discover, inventory, and document them exhaustively. The problem is that this way of thinking has hardened into dogma and ignores how attackers actually attack modern systems.