Top 7 Ways to Discover Shadow and Zombie APIs

Top 7 Ways to Discover Shadow and Zombie APIs

Published 10 months ago

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Gartner says - “API attacks lead to at least 10 times more breached records than an average cybersecurity breach.” 

Dormant (also known as “zombie”) APIs are APIs that the organization has created and is possibly still exposing externally, but has no awareness of. This can happen, for example, when an API is initially exposed but then the project is abandoned.

Shadow (also known as “rogue”) APIs are APIs that have been created and exposed externally but were not documented, communicated and properly secured and managed by the organization.

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  1. Top 7 ways to Discover APIs?
  2. Key considerations before you start your API Discovery implementation. 
  3. Discover APIs in a multi-cloud environment.
  4. How to plan for 100% coverage of shadow and zombie APIs.

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