Blog Developer Blog In the Dark about Shadow APIs? Alex Leung is a Senior Enterprise Architect at Akamai Technologies. With over nine years at Akamai, Alex has been instrumental in advancing the capabilities of streaming high-quality media content through Akamai. I’m often asked about shadow APIs and shadow API parameters—even by people with a lot of experience in the API development space. This isn’t terribly surprising, because shadow APIs aren’t typically a risk you would think about in the normal course of developing an API. In fact, some people are convinced that shadow APIs are really just a scare tactic used by security vendors to sell their tools. However, in reality, shadow APIs are relatively easy to build and use. What’s the best way for us to understand them better? By looking at real-world examples! So that’s what we will cover in this post. What are shadow APIs?…