M6 and M7 bring GraphQL and gRPC, new agent support, OpenTelemetry compatibility, business risk visibility and API risk scoring, many new and configurable blocking rules, lots of new discovered data on your API endpoints, and improved enterprise readiness.

Better security rules increase false positives — which causes more complacency. Better tools for creating the context for more sophisticated rules and automated workflows can help.

APIs are the pipes that connect various applications and (micro)services. As data flows through them, security is of utmost importance to prevent data leakage. Also, since APIs are like doors into your application, they're the obvious entry point for attackers who want to break your system.