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A finance lead once said her worst day wasn’t the market crash, it was the moment customer data streamed out of one forgotten API, unnoticed until the damage was done. In the cloud and AI era, APIs aren’t just plumbing; they’re the lifeblood of business. When they break, they break loudly, expensively, and in public.
The fix? NIST SP 800–228, a Zero Trust–driven playbook that assumes attackers are already inside and teaches you to verify everything.
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The core problem, as SP 800–228 outlines, is that the old model is dead. The idea of a hardened perimeter with a soft, chewy center is a recipe for disaster in a world where applications are distributed across multiple clouds and on-prem environments. Your “internal” network is about as private as a conversation shouted in the middle of Times Square. This is why the document champions a Zero Trust architecture, where the fundamental assumption is that no…