From the course: The OWASP API Security Top 10: An Overview

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Security concerns

Security concerns

From the course: The OWASP API Security Top 10: An Overview

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Security concerns

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- [Narrator] According to a Gartner report in 2020, APIs will account for 90% of the attack surface. The report also predicted that APIs will become the most frequent attack vector and you know what? They were actually right. Attacks are happening all the time. In fact, some of the most recent data breaches have been due to under-protected APIs some of the most popular applications used today. Including social media, health and fitness, banking, and ride sharing apps. Like I mentioned before, APIs play a critical role in modern applications including customer facing and internal applications. So why are they so vulnerable to attacks? Well, several factors make APIs such rich targets. First, they're designed to access large amounts of data within an application and provide that information whenever it's requested. Next, APIs were made for applications to speak with each other in the background. They were never really…

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