API Security: The 6 biggest challenges App Sec teams face, and how to solve them.

Summary: PortSwigger Research surveyed AppSec and penetration testing professionals in a webinar on Burp Suite Enterprise Edition's API scanning features and grouped their pain points into six themes, led by a lack of API visibility and difficulty discovering endpoints. The survey found 19.5% of respondents already manage an estate of more than 500 APIs, while many organizations remain dependent on manual testing and cite skills gaps, immature DevSecOps, and tools that cannot simulate complex API parameters.
What's compelling: Nearly one in five of the AppSec professionals surveyed already manages more than 500 APIs, and the source notes that teams struggling to secure current estates face a far harder problem as those estates grow.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
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