The API Security Newsletter - Issue #12

New research found troubling vulnerabilities in the 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data.

Looking at the 5G IoT APIs of 10 mobile carriers around the world, Shaik and his colleague Shinjo Park found common, but serious API vulnerabilities in all of them, and some could be exploited to gain authorized access to data or even direct access to IoT devices on the network.

Companies are rapidly adopting APIs to improve platform integration, connectivity, and efficiency and to enable digital innovation projects. Over the last few years, API attacks have increased massively, and API security concerns continue to impede innovations.

Unfortunately, over the last few years, API attacks have increased massively, and security concerns continue to impede innovations.

What’s worse, according to Gartner, API attacks will keep growing. They’ve already emerged as the most common type of attack in 2022. Therefore, it’s important to adopt security measures that will keep your APIs safe.

Developers and APIs are the heroes of digital transformation, says Noname Security - SiliconANGLE

The base of enterprise computing is shifting dramatically, driven by soaring cloud adoption and demand for distributed systems. In addition, the developers and application programming interface economy now dictate the pace of digital transformation.

As security teams feel the added pressure to deliver in obscure cloud-native environments, capabilities around security need to conform accordingly, according to Karl Mattson, chief information security officer at Noname Security.

I'm a bit of a podcast junkie, I listen at least an hour a day (I go running for about an hour each day, that is the only time I listen these days).

Below is an interesting episode of the "Behind the tech" podcast by https://twitter.com/kevin_scott CTO of Microsoft.

Have you ever wondered who was behind the creation of Google Docs? Kevin talks with Sam Schillace, one of the guys who launched the transformational – and at the time controversial – idea 16 years ago. Today, Sam is an engineering Corporate VP focusing on consumer product culture and next generation productivity who stresses the importance of asking “What if” questions. Kevin and Sam talk career advice, the fact that there’s always tension in high functioning teams and why we’re on the cusp of a new technological era.