APIs are now the primary interface for modern digital businesses, concentrating identity, data, and control in a single layer, and making them a prime target for attackers. Across cloud, SaaS, and enterprise environments, adversaries increasingly exploit APIs for initial access, establish persistence using tokens or service identities, and move laterally through internal APIs and trusted service-to-service communication.

This session breaks down the modern API-driven attack path using real-world incidents, explaining why API breaches so often escalate, why perimeter-based defenses fail to contain them, and how organizations can shift toward runtime detection and east-west containment. The focus is on resilience: limiting blast radius and keeping API incidents from becoming full-environment compromises.