Introducing security into software through APIs
Summary
Application programming interfaces (APIs) can make life easier for software developers, allowing them to concentrate on what they do best and preventing them from being forced to fiddle with things they know little about. Another important aspect is the fact that APIs, specially for web services, benefit from massive processing infrastructures, resulting in very fast responses, fast analysis of the responses and prediction capabilities, so some results can be automated,” Roman Foeckl, CEO at CoSoSys, explains. This particular situation covers two plausible enterprise scenarios: malicious behaviour by an employee (i.e. insider threat), and attempts of data exfiltration by malware and botnets. “The most important aspect of AI in the API context is the ability to predict threats based on user behaviour and sensitive data collected and stored by applications and services. The negative impact of any error introduced in financial industry software is bound to be great and, thus, developers have a greater responsibility to avoid them.
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