API Security: Understanding Threats to Better Protect Your Organization – Daniel Hampton – ASW #153
While web application security is a highly researched topic with a lot of subject familiarity among security professionals, it’s still not easy for security and development teams to navigate modern threats, and understand the differences, and more importantly, the similarities between securing web apps and securing APIs. In the endless battle to keep networks and applications safe, organizations need to rely on real-time data to better understand the differences between attacker behavior and legitimate traffic. Join this discussion with Daniel Hampton for a look inside a unified and collaborative approach to the modern tools and processes needed to monitor for and stop real-time web application and API security threats, and clarify the complexities teams often navigate.
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Daniel is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Fastly where he is responsible for assisting customers in the post-sales process by delivering a pragmatic and effective application security experience. Daniel recently joined Fastly through the Signal Sciences acquisition. He has spent a total of 16 years in the enterprise security space, covering database, web application and container security, policy management and managed services for small-to-medium businesses.
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