TL;DR

Modern digital transformation is built on APIs, driving a new operating model that provides direct access to business logic, applications, and institutional data. While this access is invaluable for partners and customers, it also makes APIs attractive targets for hackers and cybercriminals. Therefore, it is very important to focus on API security.

In this report, we look at the real-world antipatterns and solutions emerging and consider the important role API management increasingly plays to secure and govern agile and complex APIs.

For this research we spoke to a range of industry leaders who each had their own unique set of business objectives, operational models and customer demographics. Despite their differences, a unifying theme was the increasingly ubiquitous and vital presence of APIs for their business.