Managing the hidden risks of shadow APIs
ID: 527d80a4-3304-516a-ac33-3af1bbbad5d1
STIX ID: report--527d80a4-3304-516a-ac33-3af1bbbad5d1
Feed Name: The Register (Security)
Date Published: 2024-02-02
Date Updated: 2026-04-26
Author: Kunaciilan Nallappan, Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific at F5
The article discusses how API sprawl and shadow APIs expand attack surfaces and presents F5 Distributed Cloud Web App and API Protection as a solution, emphasizing automated discovery and inventory, strong authentication/authorization, input validation, ML-based baselining and anomaly detection, real-time blocking of OWASP API Top 10 attacks, dashboards for visibility, and unified policy enforcement across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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