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Richard Bird

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

If you aren't controlling an API's encryption from an observation standpoint, you know it's supposed to have encryption, and it's been put back into production, and now it doesn't have encryption. If you're not controlling at that level of fine-grained granularity, there is no possible way for today's current technologies to catch those breaches. Wow. That's crazy is what that is. It is.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

If you aren't controlling an API's encryption from an observation standpoint, you know it's supposed to have encryption, and it's been put back into production, and now it doesn't have encryption. If you're not controlling at that level of fine-grained granularity, there is no possible way for today's current technologies to catch those breaches. Wow. That's crazy is what that is. It is.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

I can't disagree with you on that. And the one thing that I can tell you that I did see before was the mistakes that we made 20 years ago in forgetting to put encryption on an actual physical firewall and all the bad things that happened from that. So this isn't new. It's creepy crawlers, but it's a remake of a movie that we've seen before. It's a remake of The Living Dead.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

I can't disagree with you on that. And the one thing that I can tell you that I did see before was the mistakes that we made 20 years ago in forgetting to put encryption on an actual physical firewall and all the bad things that happened from that. So this isn't new. It's creepy crawlers, but it's a remake of a movie that we've seen before. It's a remake of The Living Dead.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

I can't disagree with you on that. And the one thing that I can tell you that I did see before was the mistakes that we made 20 years ago in forgetting to put encryption on an actual physical firewall and all the bad things that happened from that. So this isn't new. It's creepy crawlers, but it's a remake of a movie that we've seen before. It's a remake of The Living Dead.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

It's a remake of any number of scary scenarios that we have seen in security before. The only difference may be volume and speed, but it doesn't make it different from a contextual standpoint. It just means that we've got to have technologies that can also operate at that kind of massive scale and that kind of speed in order to be successful against the bad guys.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

It's a remake of any number of scary scenarios that we have seen in security before. The only difference may be volume and speed, but it doesn't make it different from a contextual standpoint. It just means that we've got to have technologies that can also operate at that kind of massive scale and that kind of speed in order to be successful against the bad guys.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

It's a remake of any number of scary scenarios that we have seen in security before. The only difference may be volume and speed, but it doesn't make it different from a contextual standpoint. It just means that we've got to have technologies that can also operate at that kind of massive scale and that kind of speed in order to be successful against the bad guys.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

There's an answer to that before technology. And the answer to that initially is the old seven steps answer, which is, hi, I'm Richard Bird and I have an API security problem. A, you have to admit that you have a problem to begin with.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

There's an answer to that before technology. And the answer to that initially is the old seven steps answer, which is, hi, I'm Richard Bird and I have an API security problem. A, you have to admit that you have a problem to begin with.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

There's an answer to that before technology. And the answer to that initially is the old seven steps answer, which is, hi, I'm Richard Bird and I have an API security problem. A, you have to admit that you have a problem to begin with.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

And that sounds a bit trite, but the reality is in today's market, a large number of companies who have built the internet-enabled world that we are riding on today, they had on average nearly 18 or 19 years since the rise of those technologies to address the API space from a security standpoint. And they didn't. They didn't build the fine-grained capability. capabilities.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

And that sounds a bit trite, but the reality is in today's market, a large number of companies who have built the internet-enabled world that we are riding on today, they had on average nearly 18 or 19 years since the rise of those technologies to address the API space from a security standpoint. And they didn't. They didn't build the fine-grained capability. capabilities.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

And that sounds a bit trite, but the reality is in today's market, a large number of companies who have built the internet-enabled world that we are riding on today, they had on average nearly 18 or 19 years since the rise of those technologies to address the API space from a security standpoint. And they didn't. They didn't build the fine-grained capability. capabilities.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

They didn't build a catalog and discovery capability that takes into account the entire organization's digital footprint, but only the things that moved across their channel. And that's resulted in a lot of people in leadership and companies today going, this solution provider I've had for the last eight or nine years or 10 years has said they do it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

They didn't build a catalog and discovery capability that takes into account the entire organization's digital footprint, but only the things that moved across their channel. And that's resulted in a lot of people in leadership and companies today going, this solution provider I've had for the last eight or nine years or 10 years has said they do it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

They didn't build a catalog and discovery capability that takes into account the entire organization's digital footprint, but only the things that moved across their channel. And that's resulted in a lot of people in leadership and companies today going, this solution provider I've had for the last eight or nine years or 10 years has said they do it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

And this other solution provider that we've worked with for years have said they can collect off of other gateways or WAF. That leads to the second piece when it comes to API security tooling.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

And this other solution provider that we've worked with for years have said they can collect off of other gateways or WAF. That leads to the second piece when it comes to API security tooling.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird

And this other solution provider that we've worked with for years have said they can collect off of other gateways or WAF. That leads to the second piece when it comes to API security tooling.