Digital transformation projects appear to be accelerating faster than organizations’ efforts to secure them, with nearly a quarter (23%) admitting they suffered a breach via production APIs last year, according to Salt Security. The security vendor polled 250 respondents across a range of job responsibilities, industries and company sizes globally in order to compile its State of API Security Report, 2024 Aside from breaches, almost all (95%) respondents claimed to have encountered API security problems over the previous 12 months, including vulnerabilities (37%), sensitive data exposure (38%), authentication problems (38%), denial of service (21%) and account misuse (24%).

Source: Infosecurity Magazine – Information Security & IT Security