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5 API Vulnerabilities That Get Exploited by Criminals

Security Affairs

They facilitate communication as well as critical business operations, and they also support important digital transformations. APIs have unique threat implications that aren’t fully solved by web application firewalls or identity and access management solutions. Crafting an API security strategy is a complex task.

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security launches platform to shield apps, APIs from malicious botnets

The Last Watchdog

The attackers have a vast, pliable attack surface to bombard: essentially all of the externally-facing web apps, mobile apps and API services that organizations are increasingly embracing, in order to stay in step with digital transformation. Related: The ‘Golden Age’ of cyber espionage is upon us.

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Cybersecurity in the Evolving Threat Landscape

Security Affairs

As businesses in every sector embrace digital transformation initiatives, adopting cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, automation, AI, and interconnected ecosystems, their attack surface widens exponentially.

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Q&A: How your typing and screen swiping nuances can verify your identity

The Last Watchdog

Related podcast: Why identities are the new firewall. And with “digital transformation” accelerating, there are so many more weakly-secured login accounts just waiting to be maliciously manipulated. In the B2B world, a company should never provision a password to a third-party.

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A close look at President Biden’s cyber executive order

SC Magazine

NIST’s forthcoming guidelines could likely drive new application security technology adoption in the same way that the PCI DSS has driven the adoption of Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). B2B companies with government contracts must come to grips that they will soon face significant new requirements.

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