Charles Choe is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Akamai Technologies. He brings more than fourteen years of product management and technical marketing experience. He writes about market trends, industry challenges, and solutions in the areas of web application, infrastructure, and API security. Building incredible digital experiences often involves leveraging serverless edge computing, microservices-based architectures, IaaS environments, client-side functionality, and APIs. These modern development practices, while designed to produce highly personalized, fast, and always-on user experiences, also inextricably introduce new vulnerabilities and risks. IT and security teams also struggle to support the business given the high velocity of code releases and the inability to keep pace with changing applications and APIs. Cybercriminals, meanwhile, can quickly and easily launch a credential stuffing attack by purchasing stolen credentials and renting a botnet .…