APIs Drive the Majority of Internet Traffic and Cybercriminals are Taking Advantage

### Executive Summary The article assesses growing API security risks, noting that APIs accounted for the majority of internet traffic in 2023 and highlighting three high-risk mismanaged API types—shadow, deprecated, and unauthenticated—that enable account takeover, data exposure, and regulatory exposure; it recommends continuous discovery, risk-based protections, monitoring, and integrated defenses (WAF, API protection, DDoS and bot mitigation).