By Aparna
The mobile app development industry is growing like never before. Whether to order your next meal or to book a ticket for a trip, there is at least one app for everything you need. As per a Statista report, by the third quarter of 2022, there were around 3.5 million apps on the Google Play Store and 1.6 million apps on the Apple App Store, rewarding both app stores with the largest and the second largest app store titles respectively. This data alone is enough to justify how mobile apps are practically transforming the world, as Nikola Tesla once predicted, almost a century ago, when he was called a fool.
By PJ Bradley
In the world of cybersecurity, the spotlight often shines on protecting applications, networks, and individual accounts. Application programming interfaces (APIs), on the other hand, present their own set of challenges to secure. APIs account for a significant portion of internet traffic and handle massive amounts of information from a wide variety of programs and applications; consequently, they make for an appealing target in the eyes of cybercriminals. As Salt Security’s article on API security calls them “the building blocks of modern applications,” it is necessary for APIs to be understood and adequately protected.
