This industry brief explains that APIs are fundamental to modern software and technology companies, enabling rapid development, integration, and digital ecosystems, but also exposing critical attack surfaces. Public APIs are frequent targets for data breaches, intellectual property theft, account abuse, and supply chain attacks, risks that are amplified by agile release cycles and complex architectures. Traditional controls often fail to keep pace with evolving API threats, leaving blind spots across production environments. The brief emphasizes the need for continuous API discovery, strong posture governance to address misconfigurations and authorization flaws, and real-time behavioral threat detection to protect customer data, proprietary code, and service availability while supporting i

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