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Many tech professionals see integrating large language models (LLMs) as a simple process -just connect an API and let it run. At Wallarm, our experience has proved otherwise. Through rigorous testing and iteration, our engineering team uncovered several critical insights about deploying LLMs securely and effectively. This blog shares our journey of integrating cutting-edge AI into a security product.

Traditionally, securing APIs in AWS has involved a frustrating trade-off. Obtaining a full view of your API Fabric requires weeks or months of deploying various agents, setting up traffic analysis, and enduring lengthy professional services engagements. The outcome? An unacceptably slow time-to-value that keeps you unaware of potential risks for too long. The main issue hasn't only been locating APIs, but also the extensive wait to identify them. But what if that trade-off is no longer necessary?

As the software world shifted toward microservices and distributed architectures, the volume and complexity of API traffic have skyrocketed. Unfortunately, so has the number of API-related breaches and cyber attacks. Last year, nearly 44% of all advanced bot traffic online targeted API endpoints, while traditional web applications received just 10% of the malicious traffic. It’s no surprise that 57% of organizations admit to having suffered API-related breaches in the past two years.

In today’s threat landscape, enterprise security isn’t breached in the apparent places—it’s compromised in the seams. One of the most overlooked seams is the API gateway. While celebrated for its role in routing traffic and managing APIs, the API gateway has quietly become one of the most critical and exposed components in modern digital infrastructure.

Snyk is delighted to announce a significant milestone for our customers and partners in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region: the launch of a dedicated Snyk API & Web infrastructure instance, which is now available and hosted locally within the region. This investment addresses the critical needs of our growing customer base in the region, ensuring that they can benefit from our modern, developer-first DAST capabilities while meeting local data residency and compliance requirements.

APIs are meant to interact with other APIs. But when your API blindly trusts data or behavior from third-party or upstream APIs, you are exposing it to a wide range of threats. This is known as unsafe consumption, a critical security issue listed in OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023). Unsafe consumption occurs when.

Nestled in a log cabin high in the Rocky Mountains, Rick Bohm starts his day the same way he’s approached his career: intentionally, with a quiet commitment to learning and action. Boasting more than three decades of cybersecurity experience, Rick has watched tech evolve from dial-up ISPs to advanced AI-driven security architectures – and through it all, he’s focused on one enduring mission: protecting data, organizations, and people.

APIs are essential, but they also represent a growing and complex risk to your organization. Intricate application architectures and an ever-evolving threat landscape already make API security a constant challenge. The increasing reliance on APIs by new technologies, including AI, further amplifies this risk.