Using APIs Without iPaaS Puts Your Business At Risk

The use of application programming interfaces (APIs) is critical to many businesses and organizations – providing the necessary connections between software components. On average, businesses manage more than 300 APIs. Unfortunately, APIs have a number of vulnerabilities that cybercriminals love to take advantage of.

According to TechCrunch, APIs can be misconfigured, or otherwise vulnerable, and be used as a way to gain access to your systems. TechCrunch states, “APIs are an attractive target for threat actors because they act as the glue linking different services – they allow data to flow freely from one area to the next, and thus provide a rich vein of information if they are compromised.”

And because businesses and organizations are using so many APIs to connect systems – if they aren’t housed in a single, easy-to-use integration platform, it can be tough to monitor each API and proactively shut down security threats or resolve any issues.

In an interview with Forbes, Jesse Victors, security consultant at Synopsys, said, “As technologies shift to single-purpose microservices, we are seeing more and more APIs to facilitate that communication, and thus there are more APIs and implementation to configure and secure.”

And because there are so many APIs being used, there are more opportunities for cybercriminals to attack – making APIs a very attractive target.