The document argues that Shift Left testing is valuable but insufficient because even well-coded APIs can still be attacked, so organizations should Shield Right while Shifting Left by combining development-time practices with inline runtime protection. It outlines ten capabilities to demand from an API security solution: outside-in mapping of external API attack surface with classification and risk scoring, continuous runtime discovery and cataloging across API types, ongoing data governance checks for sensitive data leakage and restricted-entity access, spec conformance validation plus spec generation for legacy APIs, native coverage for OWASP API Security Top 10, prevention of automated business-logic abuse, detection of bot-driven fraud using real-time behavior analysis, native real-ti

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