The rapid growth of APIs used to build microservices in cloud-native architecture has left many enterprises in the dark when it comes to knowing where, how many, and what types of APIs they have. With multiple teams creating their own API endpoints without shared visibility or governance, exposed APIs can become a critical threat vector for hackers to exploit.
According to the Veracode State of Software Security 2023, 74% of applications scanned in 2023 were found to have a high-severity vulnerability.
Edgio will address how its new advanced API security capabilities give customers integrated and unparalleled protection at the edge, protecting APIs that are critical to modern businesses. Edgio delivers these services as part of its fully integrated holistic Web Application and API protection solutions giving customers the ability to respond to threats quicker. With its ML-powered API discovery abilities, enterprises can easily onboard API endpoints on the Edgio platform via OpenAPI standards, and enforce encryption, rate limiting, and other controls across identified APIs without tedious manual processes or third-party bolt-on solutions. This ensures consistent security practices and mitigates the risk of unauthorized access or data breaches from unknown or hidden APIs without adding additional latency or tools to manage. Edgio will wrap up the podcast by talking about how an edge-enabled holistic security platform can effectively reduce the attack surface, and improve the effectiveness of the defense while reducing the latency of critical web applications via its multi-layered defense approach. Edgio will conclude with how its security platform “shrinks the haystacks” so that organizations can better focus on delivering key business outcomes.
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Richard Yew is Senior Director, Product Management for Edgio Security. With more than 10+ years of security technology experience worldwide, Richard is on top of the latest trends and technologies including WAAP, DDoS protection, bot management and enterprise security. Richard comes to Edgio from Yahoo-Edgecast and, prior to this, he was with Verizon Media Platform for a number of years. Richard also spent a brief time at Akamai before moving back to Verizon Digital Media Services as Head of Product for Security. He has led teams involving technical scope and developed strategic solutions for customers and prospects. He was educated at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and later at DePaul University, rising through a technical and engineering background to a managerial role.
