This case study describes how a large multinational cosmetics company with 240 API applications and no unified API management adopted a defense-in-depth approach to protect its digital commerce and supply chain operations. Lacking real API protection, the firm faced high risk of attacks that could impact customers, revenue, and brand reputation. It implemented the Cequence Unified API Protection platform with managed services that combined continuous API discovery, compliance and governance enforcement, real-time inline attack blocking, WAF coverage aligned to OWASP protections, and added DDoS defense. The deployment immediately surfaced major visibility gaps, including 2,344 unmanaged new endpoints, 4,801 shadow endpoints not reflected in OpenAPI specifications, and 3,311 endpoints flagge

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