Senior Engineering Manager Cybersecurity at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2024-12-13T09:10:00Z
Dec 13, 2024
The challenge I found was with contextualization and how analytics are generated. Reports were sent in a raw format without proper analytics. There was no mechanism to identify which APIs will always have PII information, such as those with PCI data. Tuning to skip known APIs wasn't available.
Platform Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
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2023-10-27T11:30:47Z
Oct 27, 2023
It would be beneficial to use machine learning and API throttling together to identify how the APIs are called and whether it's coming from the right person or the wrong person. Akamai is developing that type of feature called URL protection, which is a mixture of API throttling and machine learning. Before blocking everything, this feature would check and first block requests coming from a hosting provider with a bad reputation.
API Security focuses on protecting Application Programming Interfaces from threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring secure integration and data exchange across various platforms.This category addresses the rising need for robust security measures in digital transformations. As businesses increasingly rely on APIs for functionality and innovation, ensuring data confidentiality, integrity, and availability becomes crucial. API Security solutions offer protection against threats such as...
The challenge I found was with contextualization and how analytics are generated. Reports were sent in a raw format without proper analytics. There was no mechanism to identify which APIs will always have PII information, such as those with PCI data. Tuning to skip known APIs wasn't available.
It would be beneficial to use machine learning and API throttling together to identify how the APIs are called and whether it's coming from the right person or the wrong person. Akamai is developing that type of feature called URL protection, which is a mixture of API throttling and machine learning. Before blocking everything, this feature would check and first block requests coming from a hosting provider with a bad reputation.