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We've curated 260 cybersecurity statistics about API to help you understand how vulnerabilities in application programming interfaces are being exploited and secured in 2025. Discover the trends and best practices shaping this crucial technology landscape!

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31% of organizations adhere to GDPR for API development and deployment.

Salt Security10/8/2025
GDPR

57% of developers, architects, and executives use Git repositories.

Postman10/8/2025

55% of organizations are struggling with inconsistent documentation.

Postman10/8/2025

34% of organizations are unable to find existing APIs.

Postman10/8/2025

6% of organizations do not know by how much the number of APIs has increased over the past 12 months.

Salt Security10/8/2025

34% of organizations reported sensitive data exposure and privacy incidents as the most common API security problem.

Salt Security10/8/2025
Data exposure

13% of organizations cited enumeration and scraping as the most common API security problem.

Salt Security10/8/2025
EnumerationScraping

49% of developers are concerned about AI systems accessing sensitive data they shouldn't see.

Postman10/8/2025
AI

OpenAI dominates 56% of total Postman AI traffic.

Postman10/8/2025
OpenAI

36% of developers lack trust in AI systems.

Postman10/8/2025
AI

33% of teams adopt GraphQL as an API pattern.

Postman10/8/2025

37% of organizations adhere to PCI DSS for API development and deployment.

Salt Security10/8/2025
PCI DSS

39% of organizations adhere to HIPAA for API development and deployment.

Salt Security10/8/2025
HIPAA

16% of developers have not yet considered AI agents as API consumers.

Postman10/8/2025
AI

46% of organizations plan to spend more time and resources on APIs in the next 12 months.

Postman10/8/2025
Investment

20% of developers, architects, and executives use Elastic as their API monitoring tool.

Postman10/8/2025
Monitoring toolElastic

45% of organizations identify digital transformation initiatives as a main driver behind the use of APIs.

Salt Security10/8/2025
Digital transformation

68% of developers, architects, and executives rely on AI to improve code quality.

Postman10/8/2025
AI

20% of developers, architects, and executives use Sentry as their API monitoring tool.

Postman10/8/2025
Monitoring toolSentry

35% of developers, architects, and executives use frameworks for deployment.

Postman10/8/2025