For the second time in recent months, researchers are sounding the alarm on threats to enterprise security from insecure application programming interfaces (APIs).
Last November, analyst firm Forrester Research warned about organizations failing to address API vulnerabilities in the same manner they did with application vulnerabilities – and their growing exposure to API-related breaches as a result.
This week, Salt Security released a report on API security that combined responses from a survey the vendor conducted of 200 IT and security professionals with empirical data from the company’s customers.
The results show that 91% of organizations in the survey suffered an API-related problem last year. More than half (54%) reported finding vulnerabilities in their APIs, 46% pointed to authentication issues, and 20% described problems caused by bots and data scraping…