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Application programming interfaces (APIs) make everything a bit easier - from data sharing to system connectivity to delivery of critical features and functionality - but they also make it much easier for the bad actors (and the bad bots they deploy). Here are the top 5 API vulnerabilities that get exploited by hackers, including some tips to help close those gaps. 

Security magazine is pleased to announce our 2020 Most Influential People in Security – 22 top security executives and industry leaders who are positively impacting the security field, their organization, their colleagues and peers, and the national and global security landscape.

Paul Timm is Vice President of Facility Engineering Associates (FEA), which helps support and provide owners and managers with progressive and innovative solutions to facility lifecycle challenges.

An experienced nonprofit leader who specializes in startups, turnarounds and leadership coaching, Peggy O’Neill has over 35 years of experience working with nonprofit boards.

Paul Goldenberg is a highly decorated law enforcement and national security professional. He was a co-founder of Secure Community Network, the nation’s first Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ASIS-recognized faith-based information sharing center, which has developed many of the security industries standards for faith-based security.

Paul Abbate currently serves as the Associate Deputy Director, a position in which he is responsible for the management and oversight of all U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personnel, budget, administration and infrastructure, as well as the inspection of insider threat programs.

Carmen Best will retire as Chief of the Seattle, Wash. Police Department (SPD) on September 2, 2020. As Police Chief, Best managed 1,400 police officers and was in charge of maintaining court-ordered reform to limit excessive police use-of-force and improve relationships with the local community.

Rebecca Morgan is the Chief of Insider Threat Division at the Center for Development of Security Excellence, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).

Tyne Truong is an Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) National Security, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation/Export Control Investigations Division.

As the CISO-in-Residence of YL Ventures, a cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm, Sounil Yu provides entrepreneurs first-hand insights into product development, customer needs and how global enterprises evaluate cybersecurity vendors and their solutions pre- and post-investment.