What is API Security – The Ultimate Guide for 2023

API security means protecting application programming interfaces (API) you own and that you use from threats and vulnerability exploits that may lead to data loss, fraud, and business disruption. Historically, APIs were used for high speed, machine-to-machine communications but now they are core to everything we do digitally. Our cars, ... Read More
Cequence API Sentinel — Sensitive Data Dashboard Demo

Improved API Security Through Unified API Protection and API Gateway Integration

| | Product News
The Cequence Unified API Protection solution integrates with a wide range of API gateways, complementing their API security features with API discovery, risk analysis and threat protection. API gateways are a key element in the quest for API security and API protection, acting as the focal point for API calls ... Read More
Cequence API Sentinel — Sensitive Data Dashboard Demo

Survey Highlights API Business Value and API Security Balancing Act

| | API security, Industry Reports
Survey Highlights API Business Value and API Security Balancing Act  Much like the plumbing in our homes that works behind the scenes to make our lives easier, APIs are quietly helping organizations large and small generate significant business value APIs silently help us purchase nearly anything we need from our ... Read More
Cequence API Sentinel — Sensitive Data Dashboard Demo

Complete API Security with Cequence UAP and CDN Integrations

| | API security, Product News
With the underlying goal of improving web application user experience, content delivery network (CDN) solutions such as Akamai, Amazon, CloudFlare, and Fastly were originally designed to help organizations optimize their public facing web and API-based application content delivery. Over time, CDNs added application security like web application firewalls (WAFs), bot ... Read More
Cequence API Sentinel — Sensitive Data Dashboard Demo

Complete API Security with Cequence UAP and CDN Integrations

| | API security, Product News
With the underlying goal of improving web application user experience, content delivery network (CDN) solutions such as Akamai, Amazon, CloudFlare, and Fastly were originally designed to help organizations optimize their public facing web and API-based application content delivery. Over time, CDNs added application security like web application firewalls (WAFs), bot ... Read More
Cequence API Sentinel — Sensitive Data Dashboard Demo

Complete API Security Coverage with Proxy and Service Mesh Integration

| | API security, Product News
One of the most significant API security challenges organizations face is API visibility. Organizations struggle to identify exactly how many APIs they currently have. This challenge is brought on by the widely distributed nature of API development and deployment. APIs were historically used internally to connect systems on the back ... Read More
Cequence API Sentinel — Sensitive Data Dashboard Demo

Complete API Security Coverage with Proxy and Service Mesh Integration

| | API security, Product News
One of the most significant API security challenges organizations face is API visibility. Organizations struggle to identify exactly how many APIs they currently have. This challenge is brought on by the widely distributed nature of API development and deployment. APIs were historically used internally to connect systems on the back ... Read More
Account Takeover - Financial Services

Financial Services Customer Stops Millions of API-based Account Takeover Attacks (ATO)

Using the Cequence Unified API Protection (UAP) solution, a Fortune 100 financial services customer detected and blocked a large-scale account takeover (ATO) attack that targeted their mobile APIs. Attackers analyzed perfectly coded APIs found in the mobile application to understand how they work. Then, using commercially available attack tools combined ... Read More
API Security - Top API Attacks

API Security 101

| | API protection, owasp
What Is API Security API security means protecting the APIs and their associated digital assets. With so much of our digital world supported by APIs, the need for API security is staggering. The speed of API adoption had far outpaced most organizations efforts to apply oversight or implement appropriate API ... Read More
Credential Stuffing Attacks - proxy solutions

FBI Warning on Credential Stuffing & Residential Proxies is Good News – Bad News

The FBI is warning security professionals to be on the lookout for increased use of residential proxies to execute credential stuffing attacks. The warning is a combination of good news and bad news. The Good News: Data Shows Elevated Residential Proxy Awareness The warning raises awareness around the use of ... Read More