Whether we see them or not, application programming interfaces (APIs) are a crucial part of business today. They are used in virtually every aspect of IT and DevOps. APIs facilitate and even drive B2B and B2C partnerships, ecommerce acceleration, systems and application automation, and solution integrations.
Without them, business and IT shops would not be able to deliver services anywhere near as fast and efficiently as they do today. However, this speed comes at a cost. User security is often a trade-off between security and usability and there seems to be a similar trade-off with leveraging APIs.
