Defend your digital fortress \r\n Web applications, and the APIs that enable them, are redefining customer experiences, streamlining business operations, and fueling economic growth. At the same time, they are creating new avenues of potential entry into your digital fortress.  \r\n As applications become even more woven into every aspect of business, the complex web of connections that make them work is constantly probed by malware, bots , and other threat actors who are looking for security weaknesses to exploit. \r\n We explore this trend — and what businesses can do to protect their web applications and API infrastructures — in our new State of the Internet (SOTI) report, Digital Fortresses Under Siege: Threats to Modern Application Architectures . The report provides a deep dive into the insights revealed by Akamai’s analysis of attack trends. \r\n Key findings of the SOTI report \r\n \r\n Application and API attacks surged by 49% from Q1 2023 to Q1 2024.…