The 2020s are making a name for themselves as the decade of API attacks. In February 2021, for example, Dark Reading covered a report in which 91% of organizations revealed that they had suffered an API security-related issue during the previous year. More than half (54%) of those respondents said that the problem had stemmed from a vulnerability discovery, while 46% noted that they had encountered authentication challenges. Five months later, security researchers published a study documenting a 348% increase in API attack traffic over the course of H1 2021. This growth eclipsed the 141% increase in overall API traffic…
Author: David Bisson
David Bisson
David Bisson is an information security writer and security junkie. He's a contributing editor to IBM's Security Intelligence and Tripwire's The State of Security Blog, and he's a contributing writer for Bora. He also regularly produces written content for Zix and a number of other companies in the digital security space.
