Chuck Herrin, CTO at Wib and a long-term security practitioner, shares his insights on escalating cyber attacks and the growing importance of API security. The Guest:Chuck Herrin is the CTO at Wib, a platform providing a comprehensive solution for the full API software development lifecycle. He has over 18 years of experience as CISO in global financial services firms of all shapes and sizes.With APIs becoming a prominent part of how different online systems communicate, we have become more dependent on APIs than we realize. Today, 91% of all web traffic is APIs communicating within each other and we would not be able to get anything done online without them. So by design, APIs are designed to expose certain information to the outside world.How do we deal with the increasing risks and attacks on APIs? Are there techniques and strategies that companies can adopt?Some of the topics covered in this episode include:Why APIs are so vulnerable to cyber attacksThe recently growing numbers of API attacksHow to analyze API vulnerabilitiesCommunicating vulnerabilities to different stakeholdersListen to the Story of Software on any podcast platform of your choice. The Story of Software Podcast is produced by Zartis. We hope you enjoy listening to this tech podcast and feel free to share any feedback with us: [email protected]

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