"30% of Customer-Facing APIs Are Completely Unprotected"

According to F5, 70 percent of customer-facing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are HTTPS-secured, leaving nearly one-third unprotected. The average organization manages 421 APIs, mostly in public cloud environments. The security model must cover inbound and outbound API traffic as APIs increasingly connect to AI services such as OpenAI. Current practices prioritize inbound traffic, leaving outbound API calls vulnerable. This article continues to discuss the vulnerability of customer-facing APIs and the problem of divided responsibility for API security within organizations.

Help Net Security reports "30% of Customer-Facing APIs Are Completely Unprotected"

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