{"id":9883,"date":"2021-02-10T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-site.42crunch.com\/?p=9883"},"modified":"2022-11-23T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T10:34:57","slug":"record-growth-and-api-security-leadership-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging2022.42crunch.com\/record-growth-and-api-security-leadership-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"42Crunch Announces Record Growth and API Security Leadership in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

IRVINE, CA, FEBRUARY 10, 2021<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 Today, API security leader and creator of the industry\u2019s first API Firewall, 42Crunch, announced record 900% growth in 2020 led by key enterprise accounts, innovative product advancements, and growing community of APIsecurity.io \u2014 the number one API security news source.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enterprises digitalization, as well the transition to cloud-native architectures, microservices, and serverless functions has led to the proliferation of APIs. Constantly changing and network-accessible, they represent the new, vastly expanded attack surface for companies across all industries. This has caused a shift in security focus leading to a growing demand for API specific security solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur rapid growth is the result of our unique approach to API threat protection in the industry,\u201d said Jacques Declas, CEO and co-founder of 42Crunch. \u201cOur unique ability to protect 1000s of APIs from design to production by applying a positive security model without security teams having to write manual security policies is answering an ever growing need for large enterprises. We have invested heavily in developing API security tools and integrations that are not only critical for the continuous protection of each individual API across the enterprise, but also empower developers and security teams to discover vulnerabilities from design time on a large scale.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of this tremendous growth, 42Crunch has achieved a number of major milestones, including:<\/span><\/p>\n