White paper
Know Your Client: The journey toward holistic API security
There is a security principle in the financial industry—referred to as “know your client”—which requires verifying customers and understanding their risk and financial profiles. In API security, however, organizations tend to focus exclusively on the APIs and the controls sitting in front of the APIs. But what about the client applications and their risk profiles? This briefing explores the urgent need to account for these client application risk profiles and advocates for a more holistic approach to API security.
Three Key Steps
Ensure the integrity of applications
Protect against supply-chain attacks that lead to the exfiltration of sensitive information.
Guard against attack tools posing as valid applications
Fake applications, often created through reverse engineering, undermine security and make it difficult to discern the security level of the client.
Mitigate malicious bots
Malicious bots overwhelm the security of APIs, enabling attackers to take over accounts through credential stuffing.
