Issue 205: Manufacturing industry seeing more API incidents than other industries, two guides on developing secure APIs
Brief
This week, we have a report revealing that the manufacturing industry experiences more API-related incidents than other industries. To follow, we have two guides for developers: the first describes the REST protocol and common API vulnerabilities, and the second prescribes best practices for secure API design. Finally, we have a fun read on cracking API tokens with Azure compute resources.
Article: Manufacturing industry seeing more API incidents than other industries
A recent report surveying 600 UK and USA CISOs and cybersecurity professionals reveals that the manufacturing industry experiences more API security incidents than other industries. The headline figures make for some eye-opening reading — on average, enterprise organizations have over 15 000 APIs, and on average, the respondents indicated that three-quarters of them had experienced an API-related incident.