The widespread adoption of mobile & IoT devices, emerging ‘serverless’ architectures hosted in public clouds and the growing dependency on machine-to-machine communication are reasons for changes to modern application architectures.
pplication programming interfaces (APIs) have emerged as the bridge to facilitate communication between different application architectures. APIs allow for quicker integration and faster deployment of new services. In addition, DevOps requires end-to-end process automation that leverages APIs for service provisioning, platform management and continuous deployment.
Despite rapid and widespread deployment, APIs remain poorly protected and automated threats are mounting. Personally identifiable information (PII), payment card details and business-critical services are at risk due to bot attacks.