APIs will account for 90% of attack surface area for web applications this year1. Developers and attackers gravitate towards APIs for similar reasons: they’re flexible, suited for automation, and exchange critical data.
As API footprint and functionality grows, so does their appeal to attackers. Proactive API protection must be a key priority in your application security strategy.
Security experts Jimmy Mesta and Rob Gibson will demonstrate tactics to stop four common API threats:
Account takeover (ATO)
Enumeration
Content scraping and probing
HTTP verb tampering
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About The Presenters
Jimmy Mesta
Head of Security Research, Fastly
Jimmy Mesta is a veteran application and infrastructure security leader with 15+ years of experience. He has spent time on both the offensive and defensive sides of the industry, working to build modern, developer-friendly security solutions. Prior to Signal Sciences, Jimmy maintained a global network, consulting with companies, and delivering technical security training, research, and infrastructure around the world. He previously ran the local Santa Barbara OWASP chapter and taught Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, mobile security, and pentesting courses for Manicode. Follow Jimmy on Twitter @jimmesta.
Rob Gibson
Product Manager, Fastly
Rob Gibson is product manager for defense experience at Signal Sciences, now part of Fastly. Prior to that, Rob worked at Symantec where he focused on Norton consumer security, mobile security, and identity access management (IAM). He has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Liz Hurder
Product Marketing Manager, Fastly
Liz is a product marketing manager (PMM) for security products at Fastly. Prior to Fastly, Liz was a PMM at Signal Sciences up to its acquisition. Her career in product marketing has spanned multiple security companies across web application, cloud, and endpoint protection.
