This ebook highlights APIs as critical yet highly exposed components of modern digital infrastructure, making them prime targets for cyberattacks. It explains common threats such as injection attacks, broken authentication, data exposure, and lack of rate limiting, all of which can lead to unauthorized access, breaches, and service disruption. The guide also outlines key challenges including rapid development cycles, legacy integrations, poor token management, and inconsistent policy enforcement. It emphasizes a proactive, lifecycle-based approach to API security, including API discovery, automated vulnerability scanning, CI/CD integration, and continuous monitoring. The ebook concludes that organizations must adopt unified, developer-integrated security strategies to maintain visibility,

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