Google is serious about fighting cyber crime and the protection APIs – ‘Application Programming Interface’. The tech giant has announced a preview advanced API security, a new product coming to Google Cloud that’s designed to detect security threats as they relate to APIs.
According to recent reports APIs are at severe threats from cyber criminals, the study also found out that more than 61.6% of developers relied on APIs more in 2021 than in 2020.
How does Advanced API Security all about?
It identifying API misconfigurations and detecting bots. The service regularly assesses managed APIs and provides recommended actions when it detects configuration issues, and it uses preconfigured rules to provide a way to identify malicious bots within API traffic.
Each rule represents a different type of unusual traffic from a single IP address; if an API traffic pattern meets any of the rules, Advanced API Security reports it as a bot.
Vikas Ananda, head of product at Google Cloud, in a blog post said: “Misconfigured APIs are one of the leading reasons for API security incidents. While identifying and resolving API misconfigurations is a top priority for many organizations, the configuration management process is time consuming and requires considerable resources.”
Ananda further outline that “Advanced API Security makes it easier for API teams to identify API proxies that do not conform to security standards. Additionally, Advanced API Security speeds up the process of identifying data breaches by identifying bots that successfully resulted in the HTTP 200 OK success status response code.”
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