---
id: 267
title: "API Security: The 6 biggest challenges AppSec teams face, and how to solve them."
source_domain: portswigger.net
source_url: "https://portswigger.net/blog/api-security-the-6-biggest-challenges-appsec-teams-face-and-how-to-solve-them"
published_at: "2024-09-24T10:01:07Z"
tags: ["appsec", "api-security", "survey", "dast", "burp-suite-enterprise", "openapi"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/267"
lang: en
---

# API Security: The 6 biggest challenges AppSec teams face, and how to solve them.

## Summary

PortSwigger distills six API security pain points for AppSec teams — visibility, automation, compliance, skills gaps, tooling limits, and resources — and maps them to BSEE features.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** portswigger.net
- **Published:** 2024-09-24T10:01:07Z
- **Original:** https://portswigger.net/blog/api-security-the-6-biggest-challenges-appsec-teams-face-and-how-to-solve-them
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/267