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Looking Ahead with GitHub Insights?

The recent rise in API adoption has expanded organizations’ attack surfaces, creating holes and blind
spots in software development processes and leaving businesses vulnerable to API-focused attacks.
Ineffective collaboration around API development, testing and maintenance has put organizations at risk,
as many struggle to keep pace with proper security testing to match their rapidly increasing APIs, resulting
in the potential for data breaches and malicious access to sensitive information. StackHawk’s launch of
GitHub Insights not only helps proactively safeguard against API-related threats and vulnerabilities by
giving organizations a holistic view into their entire attack surface but also creates a stronger dynamic
within developer and security teams for a more cohesive and effective API security strategy.

About the Author

Scott Gerlach is the CSO at StackHawk. Scott has more than 20 years
of experience in information security. Scott is a passionate Security
Officer with expertise in identifying security gaps and working with
companies to develop safe and effective policies and procedures to
mitigate those risks. His expertise spans developing, implementing, and
managing IT security strategy and policy, risk management, intrusion
detection, vulnerability assessment, network security design, application
security and incident response. Prior to founding StackHawk, he was
CSO at Twilio. He also spent nearly a decade in security at GoDaddy.
To learn more about StackHawk please visit: www.stackhawk.com

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