An application programming interface (API) is software that acts as an intermediary between two programs, helping them exchange information.

There are a handful of best practices businesses should adopt to avoid accidental or malicious data exposure via APIs. Here are three. In an ideal world, APIs are intended to streamline cloud ...

But embracing the cloud for building and managing new applications means security teams cannot deploy the traditional security technologies and processes they’ve long relied on to thwart cyberattacks.