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The Haunted House of APIs - The Dark Corners of APIs with Katie Paxton-Fear
23 Oct 2024
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Hello, listeners. Today, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness Month as part of our series, The Haunted House of APIs, sponsored by our friends, Traceable. In this series, we are building awareness around APIs, their security risks, and what you can do about it.
Traceable AI is building one platform to secure every API so you can discover, protect, and test all your APIs with contextual security, enabling organizations to minimize risk and maximize the value APIs bring to their customers. Our episode today is titled The Dark Corners of APIs, Uncovering Unknown APIs Lurking in the Shadows, where we speak with Katie Paxton-Fear.
APIs are the gateway to your digital infrastructure, but hidden deep in the recesses of your system are unknown APIs. Shadow, rogue, zombie, and undocumented, each of these present a unique threat to your organization and can be exploited by hackers.
Katie is an API hacker and researcher, and today she will take us on a journey through the API graveyard, sharing best practices for ensuring that they don't become your company's next security nightmare. Katie, thank you for being on the show today.
Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.
Before we jump into our topic today, which is the dark corners of APIs, uncovering unknown APIs lurking in the shadows. Super ominous. It gives me chills talking about it. Tell me a little bit about yourself. Tell me in my audience a little bit about you.
Hi, my name is Katie. I'm also known by my handle Insider PhD. I am a cybersecurity YouTuber, a lecturer and an API hacker. I find the vulnerabilities and APIs before the bad guys do. And then I go on YouTube and teach other people how to do the same thing.
I've found vulnerabilities in companies all over the world that you've definitely heard of that I can't talk about because I've got an NDA, but there are certainly companies there. I have been to like tons of live hacking events. So that's where companies fly out some of the best hackers in the world just to focus on their software.
And I work at a company called Traceable that sells an API security solution. And I work in technical marketing, which means I write technical content. I get to be a professional API security influencer, which doesn't sound like it's a real job title, but I promise.
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