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A platform category that discovers, inventories, and protects APIs by monitoring API traffic for attacks, misconfigurations, and data leakage. API security platforms detect vulnerabilities like broken authentication, excessive data exposure, and injection attacks specific to API endpoints. They also discover shadow APIs that organizations do not know exist.
APIs are now the primary attack surface for modern applications, handling more traffic than traditional web pages. Security engineers deploy API security controls as part of application protection. Penetration testers specialize in API testing. Understanding API security is essential for both application security and cloud security roles as APIs underpin microservice architectures.
A platform category that discovers, inventories, and protects APIs by monitoring API traffic for attacks, misconfigurations, and data leakage. API security platforms detect vulnerabilities like broken authentication, excessive data exposure, and injection attacks specific to API endpoints. They also discover shadow APIs that organizations do not know exist.
APIs are now the primary attack surface for modern applications, handling more traffic than traditional web pages. Security engineers deploy API security controls as part of application protection. Penetration testers specialize in API testing. Understanding API security is essential for both application security and cloud security roles as APIs underpin microservice architectures.
Cybersecurity professionals who work with API Security Platform include Security Engineer, Penetration Tester, Security Architect. These roles apply API Security Platform knowledge within the Security Products & Platforms domain.
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