Issue 195: How DevOps teams defend against API attacks, empathy for the API developer
Brief
This week, we have articles on how DevOps teams can defend against API attacks, my views on how empathy for API developers can be a driver toward greater security, and eight measures to improve API security. We also have views on why API gateways might not be sufficient for API security, and finally, a report from Approov on the state of mobile application security in 2022.
Article: How DevOps teams can defend against API attacks
First up this week, we have an an excellent article from DevOps. com discussing how DevOps teams can participate in the defense of APIs against attacks . The author offers a novel viewpoint:
“ the security practices that DevOps teams already have in place to defend against ransomware can be repurposed to deliver API security, too—with a few tweaks.”