API Security Requirements: Mapping Vulnerabilities That Matter

Organizations are turning to DevOps and Agile development to address the speed and agility requirements digital transformation demands. As the number of applications increase and their sophistication grows, so are the number of application programming interfaces (APIs) that connect to them. These offer an attractive target to cybercriminals, with experts predicting that APIs will soon become the #1 targeted attack vector in the enterprise. In this podcast, Contrast Security’s Director of Developer Relations Erik Costlow discusses how API vulnerabilities pose serious risks to applications and what development and security professionals can do to protect the APIs used by their applications.