More than half (53%) of business leaders globally ranked identity verification in their top three technologies for preventing fraud.

56% of Filipino business leaders ranked identity verification as the most effective technology for preventing fraud.

Financial transaction fraud remained low across all African markets, ranging from 0.2%–0.9%, significantly below the 2.7% global average.

Kenya's suspected digital fraud rate was 2.6% in H1 2025, the highest rate among analyzed African countries, yet lower than the 3.8% global rate.

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of consumers in the Philippines reported being targeted by fraud schemes, one of the highest rates globally.

16% of respondents pointed to resource or staffing shortages as the primary barrier to implementing a strong API security program.

The Dominican Republic reported a suspected digital fraud rate of 8.6% in H1 2025, the highest among analyzed Latin American countries.

30% of organizations reported a 0–50% increase in API growth.

28% of organizations reported breaches as the most common API security problem.

15% of respondents identified that their company's API program doesn’t adequately address runtime or production security.

93% of API patterns adopted by teams are REST.

10% of organizations monitor their APIs even less frequently than every few months.

12% of organizations monitor their APIs only every few months.

54% of organizations rely on developer documentation to identify which APIs expose sensitive data or PII.

22% of organizations raised their API security budgets by 6–10%.

29% of organizations raised their API security budgets by 11–15%.

75% of manufacturing companies have critical vulnerabilities with a CVSS score of 8 or higher.

55% of healthcare organizations say data loss or exfiltration incidents impacted patient care.

81% of developers perform testing activities related to APIs.

31% of organizations use multiple API gateways.