Boost Security with API Security Posture Management
API security posture management is now natively integrated into Defender CSPM and available in public preview at no additional cost. This integration provides comprehensive visibility, proactive API risk analysis, and security best practice recommendations for Azure API Management APIs. Security teams can use these insights to identify unauthenticated, inactive, dormant, or externally exposed APIs, and receive risk-based security recommendations to prioritize and implement API security best practices.Microsoft Defender for Cloud Extends Support to Enable Increased API Security Testing Visibility
At Microsoft Ignite 2023, Microsoft Defender for Cloud announced the support of API security testing integration, enabling Defender for Cloud to provide full lifecycle API protection from code to cloud, which makes Microsoft the only cloud provider that enables organizations to assess risk and address API threats across the entire cloud application lifecycle. Today, we’re happy to announce this support has been extended to two additional API security testing solutions and is currently in public preview. Additionally, we’re thrilled to share that support of Azure DevOps environments is in public preview. Customers can now choose from a variety of API security testing solutions in the and integrate the solutions within their DevOps pipelines, allowing security teams to have centralized visibility of the assessed API security posture within Defender for Cloud. Supported solutions now include 42Crunch, Bright Security, and StackHawk.
