Fortifying APIs with Advanced Security If you follow tech news, it often seems like “another day, another security breach”. Increasingly, though, breaches are taking the form of attacks on APIs. You’re not safe even when taking a break to exercise – a security researcher recently found that an API from stationary bike vendor Peloton delivered private user account data in response to unauthenticated requests! In F5’s The State of Application Strategy in 2021 report, 58% of respondents said they are building a layer of APIs to modernize applications. With the rise of DevOps, cloud, and microservices, applications and the APIs that underpin them need to be supported across a distributed environment that includes, but isn’t limited to: On premises, cloud, and hybrid environments Development, testing, staging, sandbox, and production environments Internal APIs that foster collaboration among developers and unlock data silos [ more… ]