APIs are critical but vulnerable points for businesses. This guide identifies five main breach types: known vulnerabilities, unmanaged APIs (shadow, rogue, zombie, deprecated), external exposures, misconfigurations, and undiscovered bugs. Prevention requires patching quickly, automating API discovery, securing external assets, managing API posture, and using real-time runtime protection. Akamai API Security offers solutions like active testing, posture management, and anomaly detection to protect against evolving API threats, ensuring that vulnerabilities are found early and malicious activity is blocked before damage occurs.

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