Hackers Love Your APIs: How to Defend Against 2025’s Biggest API Threats
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Summary
Analysts have warned that API vulnerabilities are causing more and more security incidents, with Gartner predicting that API-related data breaches will account for 60% of all cyberattacks by 2025.
With this in mind, security experts have highlighted the top API threats that businesses need to protect against by 2025, with the authorization and authentication of APIs proving to be a particular problem.
To mitigate these threats, experts recommend organisations adopt a zero trust security strategy; secure API gateways and reverse proxies; and implement API security testing into their CI/CD pipelines.
Real-life case studies have also shown how healthcare organisations, which hold highly sensitive personal data, have implemented these strategies to great success, reducing API security incidents by as much as 85%.