66% of organizations have slowed the rollout of a new application into production because of API security concerns, a Salt Security report reveals. 54% running production APIs have at best only a basic strategy for API security, with 27% having no strategy at all. Vulnerabilities (54%) and authentication issues (46%) topped the list, followed by bot/scraping (20%) and DoS attacks (19%) The number of API attacks per month per customer increased from 50 last June to nearly 80 by December.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/02/04/api-security-concerns-hindering-new-application-rollouts/