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15% of organizations admitted they do not know which APIs expose PII.
10/8/2025•
APIPII
61% of all organizations reported modest increases (≤15%) in their API security budgets.
10/8/2025•
APIBudget
21% of organizations have basic API security programs focused on risk assessments or manual reviews.
10/8/2025•
API
10% of organizations raised their API security budgets by 0–5%.
10/8/2025•
APIBudget
42% of organizations reported managing 101–500 APIs.
10/8/2025•
API
11% of organizations adhere to NIS2 for API development and deployment.
10/8/2025•
APINIS2
36% of organizations say GenAI is somewhat concerning for API security.
10/8/2025•
APIGenAI
4% of organizations do not perform or have no formal assessment of their API security measures.
10/8/2025•
API
18% of organizations perform security audits to assess the effectiveness of their API security measures.
10/8/2025•
APISecurity audits
42% of organizations conduct code reviews and security testing.
10/8/2025•
APISecurity testingCode review
12% of respondents identified that their company's API program doesn’t invest enough in pre-production security.
10/8/2025•
API
13% of organizations experienced explosive API growth of 101–200%.
10/8/2025•
API
35% of organizations adhere to the OWASP API Security Top 10 for API development and deployment.
10/8/2025•
APIOWASP
43% of organizations are using specialized AI security tools.
10/8/2025•
APIAISecurity tool
18% of organizations said increased developer productivity is a metric for measuring API security ROI.
10/8/2025•
API
Only 7% of organizations reported increases in their API security budgets greater than 21%.
10/8/2025•
APIBudget
41% of organizations use vulnerability scanning to assess the effectiveness of their API security measures.
10/8/2025•
APIVulnerability scanning
29% of organizations identified account misuse or other fraud as the most common API security problem.
10/8/2025•
APIAccount misuseFraud
12% of organizations cited a lack of investment in pre-production security for their API programs.
10/8/2025•
API
26% of organizations are adopting governance frameworks to establish rules for AI use in development.
10/8/2025•
APIGovernanceAI
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