How Secure Is Your API Gateway?

Quick, how many APIs does your organization use? We’re talking for internal products, for external services and even for infrastructure management such as Amazon’s S3 object storage or Kubernetes. If you don’t know the answer, you are hardly alone. In survey after survey, CIOs and CISOs admit they don’t have an accurate catalog of all their APIs. Yet statistics shared by Mark O’Neill, chief of research for software engineering at Gartner, in 2022: 98% of organizations use or are planning to use internal APIs, up from 88% in 2019 94% of organizations use or are planning to use public APIs provided by third parties, up from 52% in 2019 90% of organizations use or are planning to use private APIs provided by partners, up from 68% in 2019 80% of organizations provide or are planning to provide publicly exposed APIs, up from 46% in 2019 API Gateways Remain Critical Infrastructure Components To deal with this rapid growth and the management and security challenges it creates, CIOs,