Akansha Shukla - Modern AppSec: Securing APIs with Threat Modeling and DevSecOps

About this episode

Akansha Shukla discusses the challenges of securing APIs and the importance of threat modeling in application security.

Our guest today is Akansha Shukla, an information security professional with over 10 years of experience in application security, DevSecOps, and API security. We’re discussing why API security remains one of the least mature areas of AppSec today and exploring the challenges developers face when securing APIs. Akansha shares her insights on incorporating APIs into threat modeling exercises, the ongoing struggles with API discovery and inventory management, and the authorization challenges hig...

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Hosts: Chris Romeo, Robert Hurlbut

Guest: Akansha Shukla

Topics covered

• API security
• threat modeling
• DevSecOps
• application security
• developer challenges

Keywords

• API security
• threat modeling
• DevSecOps
• application security
• inventory management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DevSecOps, API security, AppSec

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