API attack traffic growing at triple the rate of regular API traffic

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Salt Security customers experience about 12.2 million attack calls per month

The amount of attack traffic targeting APIs is growing more than three times faster than the rate of regular API traffic, a new report has found. Salt Security's State of API Security Report is ...

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