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Research Brief: False Confidence Around API Security Persists
Research Brief
Feb 25, 2025
by
Melinda Marks, John Grady, Emily Marsh, Bill Lundell, Enterprise Strategy Group Research
APIs are crucial parts of modern application architectures, facilitating critical functionality, communication, and data movement. Unfortunately, each API could be an entry point for a cyberattack if a bad actor finds a vulnerability. Recent research by Informa TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group investigated the state of API security programs and whether the teams behind their operation have a handle on the risk associated with this attack vector.
APIs act as critical connections between applications and data within myriad IT processes today, and as such, they make for strong targets for cyberattackers looking to gain access to organizations’ systems. Due to several unique facets of APIs, secu…
