API Discovery – Common Topics We’re Asked About

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This article is the first in a series of five covering key API security topics and provides some answers to common questions we often get when talking to potential customers. This series will cover the following topics: API Discovery API Posture Management Attack Protection API Security Testing Attack Detection and ... Read More
An architecture diagram depicting traffic flowing from a client to and from an F5 BIG-IP and mirrored to the Cequence platform. Traffic also flows from the F5 BIG-IP to applications and back.

Cequence Integration with F5 High Speed Logging (HSL) Enhances API Security Visibility

Cequence integrates with F5’s High Speed Logging (HSL) solution, providing another zero-latency passive deployment option. This integration enables Cequence to receive and process network traffic directly from the F5 appliance in order to discover and assess APIs and identify attacks. One of the Cequence Unified API Protection platform’s strengths from ... Read More
An architecture diagram depicting traffic flowing from a client to and from an F5 BIG-IP and mirrored to the Cequence platform. Traffic also flows from the F5 BIG-IP to applications and back.

Cequence Integration with F5 High Speed Logging (HSL) Enhances API Security Visibility

Cequence integrates with F5’s High Speed Logging (HSL) solution, providing another zero-latency passive deployment option. This integration enables Cequence to receive and process network traffic directly from the F5 appliance in order to discover and assess APIs and identify attacks. One of the Cequence Unified API Protection platform’s strengths from ... Read More

New Machine Learning Enhancements to the Cequence UAP Platform

Cequence helps some of the world’s largest, most important organizations protect themselves from evolving threats, data breaches, and other business disruptions. As threats continue to evolve, so must software designed to prevent those unwanted outcomes. Cequence today announced several significant machine learning-based enhancements to its Unified API Protection platform including ... Read More

What is API Security?

| | bot management
What is API Security? API security is the practice of protecting APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, from attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud. Proper API security is accomplished through authorization controls, data protection, testing, monitoring, and attack mitigation with a tool or tools that can provide these capabilities at scale ... Read More

What is API Security Testing?

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In short, API security testing involves the systematic assessment of APIs to identify vulnerabilities, coding errors, and other weaknesses that could be exploited by malicious actors. Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, provide much of the communication layer between applications that house an organization’s critical customer and company information, and API ... Read More

What is API Security Testing?

| | owasp
In short, API security testing is the systematic assessment of APIs to identify vulnerabilities, coding errors, and other weaknesses that could be exploited by malicious actors. Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, provide much of the communication layer between applications that house an organization’s critical customer and company information, and API ... Read More

What is API Threat Detection?

| | API security
API threat detection is one of the critical aspects of API security and is the process of identifying API threats intended to exploit API vulnerabilities. As API usage becomes more prevalent across organizations, they have also become a primary target of attackers, who employ widely varied and advanced techniques to ... Read More

What is Business Logic Abuse?

Business logic abuse is a common attack technique directed at web and mobile applications as well as their APIs. These attacks appear as valid interactions because the attacker is exploiting intended app or API functionality, which also enables them to bypass traditional security solutions without detection. These attacks can be ... Read More

Automated Antagonists: The Quest for Better Bot Management

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A New Approach to Bot Management Bots are a part of life on the internet for today’s businesses. In some ways, the internet has made it easier for criminals to steal information or commit fraud – bots are used to automate attacks that would typically be performed manually in the ... Read More