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Modern App And API Security

Incorporating Protection During Development

Published March 2021
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Application security is a key priority for many businesses. This means eliminating vulnerability and security threats such as unauthorised access and data modification. Increasingly, applications are accessible over networks rather than only within a secured perimeter like a data centre. This hugely increases both the app’s attack surface and the number of potentially malicious users trying to exploit it.

Sometimes treated as an afterthought by teams designing and building applications, security must instead be integrated into development processes and CI/CD pipelines. Imposing application security policies during development minimises the likelihood that unauthorised users will be able to access, steal, modify, or delete sensitive data when apps go into production.