APIs are crucial for modern digital businesses because they allow different software systems to communicate and exchange data seamlessly and they are foundational to how modern applications are built. However, they are also vulnerable to cyberattacks because they are widely used. To address this growing threat, organizations are increasingly turning to API protection solutions to protect their valuable data and ensure uninterrupted business operations.
The Gartner 2024 Market Guide for API Protection provides valuable insights into API security, including key trends, challenges, and recommendations for security leaders. Gartner notes that API security is a key concern for organizations, saying, “with 37% of respondents considering security among their top challenges, according to the 2024 Gartner API Strategy Survey.” *
Maybe even more alarming, “Current data indicates that the average API breach leads to at least 10 times more leaked data than the average security breach.”*
In this blog post, we will examine the report’s findings, focusing on the importance of strong API security measures and how Salt Security’s API Protection Platform supports them.
Gartner recommendations:
Gartner emphasizes that APIs “especially shadow and dormant ones — are causing data breaches among organizations that, on average, exceed the magnitude of other breaches.”* Security leaders require additional security capabilities to protect their APIs beyond basic but necessary security policy enforcement, such as rate limiting, token validation, session management, and transport security — “especially in industry verticals with high-security requirements.” *
According to Gartner analysts, “start using API protection products to discover and categorize your organization’s APIs. Identify critical APIs that are publicly exposed and provide access to sensitive data. Perform a continuous security posture management assessment over the inventoried APIs to identify and provide recommendations to fix their potential exposures.” * Specialized API protection solutions are essential, especially in industries with stringent security requirements, such as financial services, healthcare, and government.
This report graphic from Gartner outlines where an API protection tool integrates into the API ecosystems with descriptions below covering the main areas of API Discovery, API Posture Management, and API Ru
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