Secure Your GraphQL and gRPC Bidirectional Streaming APIs with F5 NGINX App Protect WAF The digital economy continues to expand since the COVID-19 pandemic, with 90% of organizations growing their modern app architectures. In F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy Report, more than 40% of the 1,000 global IT decision makers surveyed describe their app portfolios as "modern". This percentage has been growing steadily over the last few years and is projected to exceed 50% by 2025. However, the increase in modern apps and use of microservices is accompanied by a proliferation of APIs and API endpoints, exponentially increasing the potential for vulnerabilities and the surface area for attacks. According to Continuous API Sprawl, a report from the F5 Office of the CTO, there were approximately 200 million APIs worldwide in 2021, a number expected to approach 2 billion by [ more… ]