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and security within strict healthcare and compliance boundaries .
Moving forward the need to move out of silos , to collaborate more with multiple providers and to continue to digitise and transform services , means healthcare providers are more dependent on APIs than ever .
So , how did our healthcare respondents fare in our second annual API Security Disconnect survey ?
API Security incidents are growing for healthcare organisations
Of the six different industry sectors surveyed in 2023 , Healthcare witnessed a 9 % increase in API security incidents compared to last year . It was the second most likely industry to have experienced an incident at 79 %, with manufacturing the least likely at 73 %.
Healthcare respondents identified network firewalls as the top attack vector ( 27 %). Last
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