The SEEBURGER white paper highlights the rising importance of API security as APIs become core to digital ecosystems. Poor implementation, like Venmo’s public API, can expose sensitive data and enable large-scale profiling. To mitigate risks, strong mechanisms such as OAuth2.0, JSON Web Tokens, and robust authentication/authorization are essential. API gateways serve as the control hub, enforcing policies like rate limiting and JWT validation. Common API security risks identified by OWASP include broken authentication, excessive data exposure, misconfigurations, and shadow APIs. SEEBURGER’s BIS API Gateway ensures centralized, scalable protection, transparency, and compliance for modern enterprises.

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