Advanced Insights and Strategies for Application Protection in 2024

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, protecting your applications, APIs and workloads has never been more crucial. From ransomware to zero-day exploits, cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, targeting vulnerabilities in software applications and APIs to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and cause widespread disruption to business services. According to our latest research, cyberattacks on web applications and APIs have also surged by 65% in the Asia Pacific and Japan region from Q1 2023 to Q1 2024. It is now imperative that organizations understand more about the threats targeting them so as to pivot their security posture to defend more effectively. On 13 August 2024 join Akamai Technologies and ISC2 for this follow-up session to our earlier webinar on “Effectively Safeguarding Your APIs,” presented to the ISC2 community in early 2024. We’ll share a holistic view of how threat actors are targeting APIs, applications and critical workloads. In this session, you’ll learn about the latest attack trends in Asia Pacific and Japan, including: - The top industries targeted for web application and API attacks -The top 5 methods used in web application attacks -Analysis of different DDoS attack types -Real-world case studies on how enterprises are securing critical workloads -Tips to enhance protection without impeding digital innovation Presenter: Reuben Koh, Director of Security Tech and Strategy, APJ, Akamai