The whitepaper from MuleSoft outlines five core API security best practices to help IT teams protect digital estates amid growing complexity and resource constraints. It emphasizes the urgency of securing APIs due to rising API sprawl and inconsistent standards across multi-cloud and microservices environments. The five best practices include strict API protection through access control and gateways, centralized governance, data tokenization to protect sensitive information, comprehensive API discovery to identify shadow APIs, and layered security testing against injection and API-specific attacks. Tools like Auto-Cataloging CLI and Anypoint API Governance empower teams with automation, visibility, and runtime protection.

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