Often deployed within the infrastructure, at a department level, or in a cloud environment, API gateways are inadequate tools for gaining complete visibility, inventory tracking, risk assessment, common security policy enforcement and threat prevention requirements necessary to protect APIs. API gateways are reactive in nature, requiring developers to register the APIs to be managed. API Gateways: Designed to help organizations aggregate and manage APIs providing access control and basic security functions such as rate limiting and IP block lists.WAFs will struggle to find and block attacks that appear legitimate, and they are unable to address the visibility, inventory tracking, risk assessment and threat prevention requirements necessary to protect APIs. Web application firewalls: Originally designed to address PCI section 6.6 requirements, web application firewalls (WAFs) use signatures to detect known vulnerabilities as described in the OWASP Web Application Top 10 Threats list.Here is why they were designed and what they lack in order to provide complete API Security: With API security ranked as a top priority in 2022 for enterprises and security leaders worldwide, many organizations will look first at their existing web application firewalls and/or API gateways to protect their APIs. Breaches and disruption from automated attacks: APIs enable high speed communication often to back-end systems making them prime targets for automated attacks and business logic abuse, even when perfectly coded. New exploit opportunities: Developer errors, lack of best practices, or improper training can lead to vulnerabilities easily exploited by bad actors.Unknown attack surface: Most organizations are unaware of how many shadow, hidden, deprecated, and 3 rd-party APIs they have, leaving many unprotected.And therein lies the risk, the widespread use and the all-inclusive nature of APIs introduces a range of security challenges: Designed for machine-to-machine interaction, APIs are the tool of choice for developers because each API includes all necessary commands, payload, and data to produce engaging user interactions.
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