Timed to coincide with the annual RSA cybersecurity conference, Google Cloud announced updates to Apigee, its API management and predictive analytics service, designed to help prevent business logic attacks.
Business logic attacks are flaws in the design and implementation of an app that allow malicious actors to elicit unintended behavior. They can be tricky to identify — and very widespread. According to a study commissioned by Silver Tail Systems, 90% of companies lost revenue due to business logic attacks between 2011 and 2012.
To combat these types of exploits, Google is introducing new machine learning models in Apigee that it says were trained to detect potential business logic attacks. Google Cloud claims that the models — available to all Apigee Advanced API Security customers, and trained on internal Google data — are sensitiv...
