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Summary
Application environments are more complex than ever, with web applications increasingly cloud-resident, containerized, connected via APIs, and delivered via CDNs.
Teams Desire Consolidation but Need Specialized Protection
Application environments are more complex than ever, with web applications increasingly cloud-resident, containerized, connected via APIs, and delivered via CDNs. On top of this increasingly heterogeneous environment, security responsibility is distributed across a variety of roles and personas. This has resulted in complexity and tool sprawl as security teams struggle to keep pace. Attackers understand this and use it to their advantage through exploits against known vulnerabilities and advanced campaigns that use a variety of tactics such as bots that amplify denial-of-service and credential attacks on web applications and the APIs that tie them together. While platforms are attractive, security cannot be compromised. Security leaders need to understand the actions that forward-thinking organizations have undertaken to properly assess which tools are best positioned to solve the key business challenges they face.
To gain insights into these trends, we surveyed 383 IT and cybersecurity professionals in North America (U.S. and Canada) involved with securing their organization’s web applications and APIs.
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John Grady, Principal Analyst, Cybersecurity
