APIs are a basic a part of trendy software program techniques and allow communication between providers, functions, and third-party integrations. Nonetheless, their openness and accessibility additionally make them a major goal for safety threats, and this makes APIs a rising concentrate on software program groups.

StackHawk is an organization that scans and displays supply code to acquire the total scope of a corporation’s APIs and functions, and runs checks to establish vulnerabilities and tackle them pre-production.

Scott Gerlach is the Co-Founder and Chief Safety Officer at StackHawk and beforehand labored at SendGrid and GoDaddy. He has an in depth background operating safety operations and engineering and, on this episode, he joins the present to speak in regards to the challenges round API safety and modern methods to handle them.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by 10kMedia (StackHawk).