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APIs’ Evolution, Future and Vulnerabilities

The podcast was sponsored by Okta. Co-hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy at API security firm Okta, Jhingran offers his take on how APIs have evolved, their potential for the developer community and how their success accounts, in part, for their exposure to vulnerabilities.

During the past couple of decades, APIs have played an integral role in how developers, as well as operations team members, have been able to build and manage applications at scale.

That is where, for example, REST, REST APIs and everything else that came with it kind of really took off.

So, the key question really is — and what I have seen almost always — is that finding that balance between doing well for the business, as well as kind of protecting it is not something that people get right off the bat,” said Jhingran.