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November 16, 2023

FireTail Advisory Board Welcomes Mikko Hypponen and Sounil Yu

We are delighted to welcome two outstanding individuals to our advisory board – Mikko Hypponen and Sounil Yu. These new additions bring unparalleled expertise and strategic insights that will drive continued innovation and address the evolving API security needs of today's leading organizations.

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November 16, 2023

Getting Personal: CISOs in the Crosshairs as API Breaches Surge

With an ever-changing threat landscape, increased regulatory oversight and a desire among authorities to hold individual executives accountable for data breaches, these are tough times for CISOs. And as APIs become the attack vector of choice for bad actors, it’s more important than ever to prioritize effective API security at your organization.

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November 15, 2023

FireTail at SecOps Vision for 2024

SecOps Vision for 2024, powered by Techstrong Learn, gave industry professionals the opportunity to connect and share security strategies. FireTail CEO, Jeremy Snyder, was pleased to provide the assembled audience with insights into the importance of API security at the intersection of cloud and application security.

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November 13, 2023

Behavioral Analysis & API Security: After the Fact and Behind the Curve

API security solutions focused on ML/AI pattern recognition analyze behavior ‘out-of-band’ to identify anomalies, reporting issues after the fact. Prone to false positives, this approach also means attackers will have some success before you learn from it. That’s not acceptable.

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November 13, 2023

API Gateways: Great for Management but Not for Security

Gateways are great, but not for security. API gateways are useful when it comes to API management but they were never designed with security in mind. They can't actively monitor API traffic, they don’t see inside payloads or detect real-time manipulation. They won’t stop most API attacks.

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November 10, 2023

OpenAI Updates Will Open API Floodgates

Recently announced OpenAI changes mean users will be able to call any API. That’s great for business and the economy but a potential headache for security teams.

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