It’s Time to Consolidate Your Web App and API Security Mess
When he was training to fight George Foreman in the famous “rumble in the jungle,” Muhammad Ali waved off the famed knockout power of his rival, declaring that “his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.”
Fast-forward to the present and Ali’s observation still packs a punch when it comes to describing one of the biggest problems in the contemporary security world that nobody’s talking about: the utter lack of visibility when it comes to protecting apps and APIs.
Simply put, it’s impossible to secure what you don’t know about. But all too often, organizations simply don’t have any idea what’s running on their networks. Companies that added security tools in a one-off fashion (due to multiple acquisitions over time, for example) find themselves with mediocre protection as new kinds of threats become headline news. What’s more, traditional tools were not built with the modern, decentralized enterprise in mind and often cause more problems than they solve.
Every mobile app and single-page app now exclusively calls into an API. If enterprises are going to protect the APIs and apps that are now so critical to their success, they need to start rethinking some parts of their security posture and addressing these gaps.
