Blog Security API Discovery and Profiling -- Visibility to Protection | Akamai Amol Mathur is Vice President of Product Management for the Application Security and Infrastructure DDoS lines of business. APIs have become a dominant mechanism in the modern web, allowing organizations to create powerful web and mobile experiences, while exposing back-end data and logic to create new and innovative offerings. Protecting internet-facing APIs -- an emerging practice over the past few years -- is the default requirement for web application security in 2020 and beyond. \r\n Why focus on APIs? \r\n Monolithic web applications have given way to individual microservices which, coupled together, form the experience delivered to the end user online.…