API Security Trends: Government & Public Sector

Noname Security collaborated with Opinion Matters to conduct research on API Security Trends in 2023. In this survey, 631 senior cybersecurity professionals were surveyed to better understand the challenges and trends facing UK and USA businesses when it comes to their API security posture.

Security and regulatory compliance is a critical issue for government & public sector organizations. As they look to digitize more of their processes and take more services online, they’ve become heavily reliant on APIs to help enable this.

What did our public sector respondents say?

• 77% of respondents have experienced an API security incident in 2023 (an increase from 2022).
• API gateways are the leading method of attack with 24% reporting this type of attack.
• 30%  have a partial view of their API inventory.
• 51%  are testing APIs in real-time or at least once a day.