When it comes to securing the API aspect of networks, should
security come before functionality? Jason Macy, CTO at Forum Systems explains why this is the only option
In today’s era of hyper-connectivity, securing your organisation’s systems, data and business-critical processes is harder than ever. As a result of the major IT trends of the last decade, in particular cloud, mobile and IoT, more and more people and applications are connecting to our IT assets than ever before. What’s more, the majority of these interactions are from untrusted entities outside of the organisation’s network perimeter, and almost every one of these interactions relies on an application programming interface (API) to communicate to an application or system, somewhere in the world.