Hello listeners. Today we are releasing another episode for Cyber Security Awareness Month as part of our series The Haunted House of APIs, sponsored by our friends Traceable.

In this series, we are building awareness around APIs, their security risks, and what you can do about it.

Traceable AI is building one platform to secure every API so you can discover, protect,

and test all your APIs with contextual security, enabling organizations to minimize risk

and maximize the value APIs bring to their customers.

Today's episode is titled The Haunted Web,

navigating API sprawl and creepy crawlers with Traceable's chief security officer Richard Byrd.

As organizations scale and evolve, so does the complexity of their APIs.

The uncontrolled expansion of APIs creates a tangled web where

vulnerabilities linger in the shadows. These unseen APIs become creepy crawlers of your

digital infrastructure, creeping through your systems and posing security risks. Richard will discuss

how unmanaged and undocumented APIs contribute to blind spots, the risk they create for organizations,

and the best strategies for securing a sprawling ecosystem. Well, Richard, thank you for being on the show

today. That's great to be here. Before we jump into our topic for today, which is the haunted web,

navigating API sprawl and creepy crawlers.

Tell me in my audience a little bit more about you.

I'm a longtime technologist.

30 years this year.

I don't feel that old.

I'm the chief security officer for Traceable, and I've been in this startup and solution

site for about six years now.

I spent more than 24 years in the corporate world where I was an executive, a number of different things. All I like to say is it took me 25 years of work in the corporate world to become an overnight sensation in the startup world. So if you're willing to put the work in for a quarter of a century, you can be recognized for being

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