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By far this year’s biggest trend that we’ve observed in the land of APIs is that every organization has shadow and zombie APIs and they’re a much bigger issue than most people want to believe. Maybe they’re taking the “If I’ve never seen it, then it doesn’t exist” approach to API security. This is also known as the “If I don’t know about it, I can’t get blamed for the breach” approach. Either way, you’ll surely get bit in the you-know-what for not being more proactive.