Introducing the Wallarm AI Control Platform: One closed loop for AI security and API security.

TL;DR - AI deployment has outpaced AI governance. Most enterprises running AI on AWS cannot answer four basic security questions about what's running, what it's doing,how to stop it, and how to prove it's under control. - The Wallarm AI Control Platform closes this gap: one platform for Discover,...

What Your Board Gets Wrong About AI Security

Editor's note: This article was originally published by Craig Riddell on LinkedIn. It has been republished here with the author's permission. Boards are giving AI security more airtime than ever. What they're not giving is the right framing. A year or two ago, AI was mostly a question of...

Extending Security to MCP Servers: Closing a Critical Gap

The Model Context Protocol MCP is a de facto standard for providing structured access to privileged systems for AI agents and external integrations. It acts as a USB-C port for AI, enabling faster innovation by allowing organizations to expose tools, resources, and workflows without the...

Introducing Wallarm Middle East Cloud: Built for Data Residency Compliance

As API and AI adoption grows across the Middle East, so do the expectations around how data is handled. For many organizations operating in this region, it’s not just about securing applications. It’s about doing it in a way that keeps data in-country and aligned with local requirements. Today,...

6 Lessons Security Leaders Must Learn About AI and APIs

Most organizations treating AI security as a model problem are defending the wrong layer. Security teams filter prompts, patch jailbreaks, and tune model behavior, which is all necessary work, while the actual attack surface sits largely unexamined underneath. That surface is the API layer: the...

The Governance Gap: How the EU AI Act Makes API Security a Compliance Imperative

Your legal team just handed you a 400-page document and said "figure out compliance." The EU AI Act is live, your organization falls under its scope, which is broader than many expect. Even non‑EU companies must comply if their AI systems are used, deployed, or produce effects within the European...

Attacking the MCP Trust Boundary

Every secure API draws a line between code and data. HTTP separates headers from bodies. SQL has prepared statements. Even email distinguishes the envelope from the message. The Model Context Protocol MCP, the fast-growing standard for connecting AI agents to external services, inherits that gap...

Why API Discovery Is the First Step to Securing AI

TL;DR AI risk doesn’t live in the model. It lives in the APIs behind it. Every AI interaction triggers a chain of API calls across your environment. Many of those APIs aren’t documented or tracked. That’s your real exposure. Shadow API discovery gives you visibility into those hidden endpoints, s...

CISO Spotlight: Dimitris Georgiou on Building Security that Serves People First

Dimitris Georgiou has been a self-professed computer geek since the early 80s. At university, he studied the convergence of educational technology with computer science as part of his psychology MA – finding, to his disbelief, that systems were perilously insecure. Since then, he’s always worked ...

The CISO’s Dilemma: How To Scale AI Securely

Your board wants AI. Your developers are building with it. Your budget committee is asking for an ROI timeline. But as CISO, you're the one who has to answer when the inevitable question comes up: "How do we know this is secure?" If you're like most security leaders, you're caught between two...

Agent-to-Agent Attacks Are Coming: What API Security Teaches Us About Securing AI Systems

AI systems are no longer just isolated models responding to human prompts. In modern production environments, they are increasingly chained together – delegating tasks, calling tools, and coordinating decisions with limited or no human oversight. Almost all that communication happens through APIs...

Everyone Knows About Broken Authorization – So Why Does It Still Work for Attackers?

Broken authorization is one of the most widely known API vulnerabilities. It features in the OWASP Top 10, AppSec conversations, and secure coding guidelines. Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA and Broken Function Level Authorization BFLA account for hundreds of API vulnerabilities every...

From Shadow APIs to Shadow AI: How the API Threat Model Is Expanding Faster Than Most Defenses

The shadow technology problem is getting worse. Over the past few years, organizations have scaled microservices, cloud-native apps, and partner integrations faster than corporate governance models could keep up, resulting in undocumented or shadow APIs. We’re now seeing this pattern all over aga...

Inside Modern API Attacks: What We Learn from the 2026 API ThreatStats Report

API security has been a growing concern for years. However, while it was always seen as important, it often came second to application security or hardening infrastructure. In 2025, the picture changed. Wallarm’s 2026 API ThreatStats Report revealed that APIs are now the primary attack surface fo...

CISO Spotlight: Craig Riddell on Curiosity, Translation, and Why API Security is the New Business Imperative

It’s an unusually cold winter morning in Houston, and Craig Riddell is settling into his new role as Wallarm’s Global Field CISO. It’s a position that suits him down to the ground, blending technical depth, empathy, business acumen, and, what Craig believes, the most underrated skill in...

The Myth of “Known APIs”: Why Inventory-First Security Models Are Already Obsolete

You probably think the security mantra “you can’t protect what you don’t know about” is an inarguable truth. But you would be wrong. It doesn’t hold water in today’s threat landscape. Of course, it sounds reasonable. Before you secure APIs, you must first discover, inventory, and document them...

Why API Security Is No Longer an AppSec Problem – And What Security Leaders Must Do Instead

APIs are one of the most important technologies in digital business ecosystems. And yet, the responsibility for their security often falls to AppSec teams – and that’s a problem. This organizational mismatch creates systemic risk: business teams assume APIs are “secured,” while attackers exploit...

7 Reasons to Get Certified in API Security

API security is becoming more important by the day and skilled practitioners are in high demand. Now’s the time to level up your API security skillset. Wallarm University, our free training course, provides security analysts, engineers, and practitioners with hands-on skills you can’t get from...

From Agent2Agent Prompt Injection to Runtime Self-Defense: How Wallarm Redefines Agentic AI Security

Is an AI-to-AI attack scenario a science fiction possibility only for blockbusters like the Terminator series of movies? Well, maybe not! Researchers recently discovered that one AI agent can “inject malicious instructions into a conversation, hiding them among otherwise benign client requests an...

CISO Spotlight: Lefteris Tzelepis on Leadership, Strategy, and the Modern Security Mandate

Lefteris Tzelepis, CISO at Steelmet /Viohalco Companies, was shaped by cybersecurity. From his early exposure to real-world attacks at the Greek Ministry of Defense to building and leading security programs inside complex enterprises, his career mirrors the evolution of the CISO role itself. Now ...

2026 API and AI Security Predictions: What Experts Expect in the Year Ahead

This is a predictions blog. We know, we know; everyone does them, and they can get a bit same-y. Chances are, you’re already bored with reading them. So, we’ve decided to do things a little bit differently this year. Instead of bombarding you with just our own predictions, we’ve decided to cast t...

Update on React Server Components RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182 / CVE-2025-66478)

The attack landscape has been dynamic following the disclosure of the React Server Components RCE vulnerability. New information has emerged regarding the initial Proof-of-Concept exploit, as well as improved detection methods, exploitation mechanics observed in the wild, and rapidly growing atta...

2025 in Review: A Year of Smarter, Context-Aware API Security

As the year draws to a close, it’s worth pausing to look back on what has been an extraordinary year for Wallarm and, more importantly, for the businesses we protect. If 2024 was about laying the groundwork tracking API sessions to understand behavioral attacks, then 2025 was the year we built up...

Wallarm Halts Remote Code Execution Exploits: Defense for Vulnerable React Server Component Workflows

On December 3, 2025, React maintainers disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability in React Server Components RSC, tracked as CVE-2025-55182. A working PoC was released publicly, and Wallarm immediately began observing widespread exploitation attempts across...

Attackers Don’t Need to Breach Your API -They’ll Breach the Tools That Touch It

The API supply chain is the new security blind spot. Attackers no longer need to breach your APIs directly; they can target the third-party services that connect to them. These unmanaged dependencies are now the shortest path to your sensitive data. The recent Mixpanel incident is a stark reminde...

When your AI Assistant Becomes the Attacker’s Command-and-Control

Earlier this month, Microsoft uncovered SesameOp, a new backdoor malware that abuses the OpenAI Assistants API as a covert command-and-control C2 channel. The discovery has drawn significant attention within the cybersecurity community. Security teams can no longer focus solely on endpoint malwar...

APIs Are the Retail Engine: How to Secure Them This Black Friday

Can you ever imagine the impact on your business if it went offline on Black Friday or Cyber Monday due to a cyberattack? Black Friday is the biggest day in the retail calendar. It’s also the riskiest. As you gear up for huge surges in online traffic, ask yourself: have you protected the APIs on...

OWASP Top 10 Business Logic Abuse: What You Need to Know

Over the past few years, API security has gone from a relatively niche concern to a headline issue. A slew of high-profile breaches and compliance mandates like PCI DSS 4.0 have woken security teams up to the reality that APIs are the front door to their data, infrastructure, and revenue streams...

When APIs Become Attack Paths: What the Q3 2025 ThreatStats Report Tells Us

Wallarm’s latest Q3 2025 API ThreatStats report link placeholder reveals that API vulnerabilities, exploits, and breaches are not just increasing; they’re evolving. Malicious actors are shifting from code-level weaknesses to business logic flaws, from web apps to partner integrations, and from RE...

API Attack Awareness: Business Logic Abuse — Exploiting the Rules of the Game

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, we wanted to dive even deeper into the attack methods affecting APIs. We’ve already reviewed Broken Object Level Authentication BOLA, injection attacks, and authentication flaws; this week, we’re exploring business logic abuse BLA. Unlike technical flaw...

AWS Outage: Lessons Learned

What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025 , AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet and social media, affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slac...

Key API Security Takeaways from the Postman 2025 State of API Report

API security has never been more important because modern APIs are operational necessities. Unfortunately, many organizations are failing to adapt their security models to a rapidly changing API threat landscape. Like it or not, we live in an AI-first world, and API security must reflect that...

API Attack Awareness: When Authentication Fails — Exposing APIs to Risk

Authentication issues seem like low-level attacks. But authentication today – especially API authentication – can be more difficult than people expect. Companies rely on APIs to carry sensitive information every day. If access to those APIs is not properly secured, all the sophisticated security...

Wallarm: API Security Platform of the Year 2025

2025 has been one of Wallarm’s biggest years yet. In the last few months alone, we unveiled our industry-first API Revenue Protection capability, launched our next-gen Security Edge offering, were included in the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, and announced o...

API Attack Awareness: Injection Attacks in APIs – Old Threat, New Surface

Injection attacks are among the oldest tricks in the attacker playbook. And yet they persist. The problem is that the core weakness, trusting user inputs too much, keeps resurfacing in new forms. As organizations have shifted to API-driven architectures and integrated AI systems that consume...

API Attack Awareness: Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) – Why It Tops the OWASP API Top 10

For this Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we thought it important to draw attention to some of the most common and dangerous API vulnerabilities. This week, we’re starting with Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA. BOLA vulnerabilities top the OWASP API Top Ten. And for good reason: they’re...

CISO Spotlight: AJ Debole on the Business-Tech Divide, Breach Readiness, and AI Risks

AJ Debole is Field CISO at Oracle, but her journey began far from the corporate boardroom. After starting out in law and government, she moved into healthcare and cyber defense, where she led teams through ransomware crises. In this spotlight, she explores the next wave of challenges – aligning...

Scaling API Security Without the Complexity: Lessons from Early Adopters

APIs are a blessing and a curse. They’re the backbone of the modern internet. They also expose complex behaviors that are often poorly documented, stitched together across legacy and cloud systems, and updated faster than security teams can review. Three key groups typically shoulder the burden o...

Inside Wallarm Security Edge: Instant Protection at the API Edge

APIs are now the beating heart of digital infrastructure. But as they have risen in importance, they’ve also become prime targets for attackers. Complex, often poorly understood API behaviors present rich opportunities for exploitation, and too often, security teams are left scrambling to protect...

The API Security Dilemma: Why Traditional Approaches Are Failing in the AI Era

Throughout the past few years, APIs have become the backbone of digital infrastructure. They enable software-to-software communication, improve integration and interoperability, support modular architecture, and more. But as API use has exploded, so has API traffic volume and complexity, making...

Reflecting on Wallarm’s Journey: Growth, Resilience, and What Comes Next

By Ivan Novikov and Stepan Ilyin When we started Wallarm, we focused on the APIs that power modern apps. We built an API-first platform, used AI from day one, and secured early patents in behavior-based detection and automated policy creation. The result: real-time, inline blocking with automatic...

The API Security Reality Check: Key Takeaways from Q2 2025 API ThreatStats Report

API security has never been more crucial. Vulnerabilities are growing in volume and severity. AI integrations are a burgeoning attack vector. Increasing GraphQL adoption presents hidden dangers. To protect your organization, you must secure your APIs. Keep reading for our key takeaways from the...

Exploiting API4 — 8 Real-World Unrestricted Resource Consumption Attack Scenarios (and How to Stop Them)

Unrestricted Resource ConsumptionAPI4:2023 is the only threat category in the OWASP API Security Top 10 explicitly dedicated to Denial of Service DoS and resource abuse. But despite being just one category, attackers can exploit it in many different ways; from large file uploads and expensive...

Comprehensive MCP Security Checklist: Protecting Your AI-Powered Infrastructure

With innovation comes risk. As organizations race to build AI-first infrastructure, security is struggling to keep pace. Multi-Agentic Systems – those built on Large Language Models LLMs and Multi-Component Protocols MCP - bring immense potential, but also novel vulnerabilities that traditional...

IBM 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report: Lessons for API and AI Security

IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report offers one of the clearest and most comprehensive views yet of how AI adoption is shaping the security landscape. While breach numbers are relatively low – only 13% of organizations reported breaches involving AI models or applications – the report reveals ...

Black Hat 2025: Why We Built a Museum Instead of a Booth

Think you know what to expect from a conference booth? Think again. Forget the cliches: the swag destined for the back of your wardrobe, the formula one simulators, the marketing trickery. Instead, step into a new kind of conference experience, one that takes you on a journey through past, presen...

Debunking API Security Myths

I recently sat down with Tejpal Garwhal, Application Security and DevSecOps Leader, for a conversation debunking some of the most common API security myths. From zombie endpoints to the limits of WAFS and gateways, we covered what’s really happening on the ground; and what security teams need to ...

ToolShell: Remote Code Execution in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2025-53770)

On July 19, 2025, a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability CVE-2025-53770, also referred to as ToolShell was publicly disclosed, impacting on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server installations. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely by...

CISO Spotlight: Andrew Storms on Trust, AI, and Why CISOs Need to Be Optimists

Andrew Storms, VP of Security at Replicated, has spent three decades on the frontlines of cybersecurity. From building Unix systems in the early ‘90s to leading incident response and AI security strategies today, he has seen the CISO role evolve from back-office function to boardroom mainstay. In...

Fail-Open Architecture for Secure Inline Protection on Azure

Every inline deployment introduces a tradeoff: enhanced inspection versus increased risk of downtime. Inline protection is important, especially for APIs, which are now the most targeted attack surface, but so is consistent uptime and performance. This is where a fail-open architecture comes in...