The latest API security upgrades from Noname focus on expanded testing and discovery. Credit: Photon photo API security vendor Noname Security today announced a new release of its platform, with a number of upgrades designed to enhance visibility into a user’s API environment and protect against the growing number of API-based threats.The growth in the number of those threats has been fueled by the increasing centrality of APIs to modern enterprise computing, Noname said in a press release. The company cited a recent report from IBM as saying that as many as two thirds of all incidents analyzed by IBM’s X-Force security team involved unsecured APIs.Noname’s latest updates cover a wide range of new capabilities, including customized discovery, Kubernetes features, simplified onboarding and more. The idea, according to the company, is to improve the solution’s coverage and allow it to work more quickly to discover potential vulnerabilities.“APIs are the connective tissue for the digital world,” said co-founder and CTO Shay Levi, in a statement. Visibility and discovery key to API securityThe updates, as a whole, are well-designed to target the most important parts of the broader API security issue, according to Forrester principal analyst Sandy Carielli. Visibility and discovery, for instance, are still a major challenge to many organizations. “Lots of companies don’t have a sense of what APIs are in their environments or what data is being used,” she said. “Any tooling improvements that add context to the discovery process, which this announcement talks about, I think will be good news for the organizations struggling to understand what they have.”Part of the problem that improved visibility attempts to solve is the presence of zombie APIs – which are APIs that have been depreciated or forgotten and aren’t in active use, but are still present on a company’s systems – and rogue APIs, which could be used to provide back doors into important subsystems. Testing APIs for vulnerabilitiesTesting, according to Carielli, is the other part of the API security landscape that is effectively addressed by Noname’s latest updates. Testing APIs for vulnerabilities can be time consuming based on the fact that they’re frequently not integrated in to development pipelines – as well as the aforementioned fact that there are increasingly large numbers of them present on the average company’s systems.“What jumps out to me about [Noname’s announcement] is the idea of leaving no API untested,” she said. “They’re looking not just at the tech but at the business logic aspects of APIs.”The new features are available now, and no pricing changes were announced. Related content brandpost Shifting security left: DevSecOps meets virtualization By Anthony Ricco, CMO of Corellium. 01 Jul 2023 4 mins Security news analysis Attackers add hacked servers to commercial proxy networks for profit Proxyjacking allows attackers to sell unknowing victims' unused network bandwidth. By Lucian Constantin 30 Jun 2023 4 mins Cybercrime news Command-and-control framework PhonyC2 attributed to Iran’s Muddywater group PhonyC2 was used to exploit the log4j vulnerability in the Israeli software SysAid, the attack against Israel’s Technion institute, and the ongoing attack against the PaperCut print management software. By Apurva Venkat 30 Jun 2023 4 mins Advanced Persistent Threats Cyberattacks Vulnerabilities news First state-sponsored cyberattack against UK government revealed two decades later Rare insight marks the 20th anniversary of a state-backed malware attack on a UK government department. By Michael Hill 30 Jun 2023 3 mins Cyberattacks Government Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe