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42Crunch, a market major in API security, has announced the appointment of Tansel Ismail and Tushar Kothari to its Board of Directors. 42Crunch is experiencing rapid growth as enterprises increasingly embrace a security-by-design approach to address the vulnerabilities inherent in their APIs. These appointments will help 42Crunch strengthen its strategic leadership to serve the growing demand for robust, secure-by-design, scalable API security for enterprises globally. New Board Members appointed Tansel Ismail is a Vice President at Energy Impact Partners (EIP), the lead investor in 42Crunch Tansel Ismail is a Vice President at Energy Impact Partners (EIP), the lead investor in 42Crunch, with deep expertise in cyber security investments across all growth stages. He has partnered with companies like Dragos, Corelight, Attivo Networks (acquired by SentinelOne), and Swimlane, supporting them in scaling from early-stage innovation to global market leadership. Extensive industry experience Tushar Kothari is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in cyber security and SaaS. Tushar was CEO of Attivo Networks, which was sold to Sentinel One for over $600 million. He brings a proven track record of driving exponential growth and operational excellence.  Kothari has successfully scaled multiple organisations and has held senior commercial leadership roles at companies like Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, prior to his role at Attivo Networks. Revolutionise the world of API security "These appointments embody the leadership and expertise that align with their mission at 42Crunch to revolutionise the world of API security," said Jacques Declas, CEO at 42Crunch, adding "With leading enterprise customers across key market industries and over 1.6 million developers now using 42Crunch, these latest appointments will be instrumental in helping us as we expand our API security leadership position globally." "42Crunch is rapidly emerging as the leading API security testing solution, driven by strong adoption across both Fortune 500 enterprises and a vast developer community. The company’s growth reflects the market’s increasing need for security-by-design solutions, and I’m excited to support the team as they continue to scale and redefine API security standards," said Tansel Ismail. API security governance is mission critical "Effective API security governance is mission critical in today’s business environment," said Tushar Kothari, adding "I’m honoured to join 42Crunch’s distinguished team at an exciting point. With AI driving increased usage of APIs, 42Crunch is well positioned to help enterprises navigate the risks and challenges of a rapidly evolving market."

42Crunch, the API security platform company, announced the latest set of API security testing and threat protection capabilities, designed to ensure companies build APIs that are secure by default and don’t impede the developer workflow. Companies will benefit from these latest advancements by enhancing their overall API security governance and compliance while simultaneously speeding up the delivery of secure APIs.  42Crunch API security platform The 42Crunch API security platform is successfully deployed by global 2500 enterprises and government agencies worldwide and now has over 800,000 developers using its services to secure their APIs. According to a Gartner report - software engineering providers should 'build and deliver secure software. Select tools that integrate security seamlessly into developer workflows without compromising developer experience. This ensures that software is ‘secure by default.’ They should adopt tools at each phase of the SDLC—plan, create, verify, pre-production, release, configure and operate.' API security testing services API security testing services into the developer workflow at the IDE and CI/CD levels" Commenting on this latest release, Isabelle Mauny, Field CTO and Co-Founder at 42Crunch said, “Our mission is to help security and development teams work closer together. By integrating our API security testing services into the developer workflow at the IDE and CI/CD levels, we enable a trust but verify approach for security officers to govern the API security process." Isabelle Mauny adds, "Companies are able to reduce developer friction and accelerate the time to market of secure API-driven services.”  Key features The new generation of API security testing engine: Support for scenarios testing Automatic authorisation testing to detect API 1 and API 5 issues Automatic authentication testing to detect API 2 issues Those tests are enriching the existing set of tests used by our major customers which trigger faulty API behaviours that typical hacking would trigger, including injection of data (API6 / API 8) detection of data leakage (API3), or security misconfigurations (API7). Available via CI/CD and from the developer’s IDE Test operation by operation  Easily reproduce issues from within the IDE Filter on the issues which do not comply with company security requirements Detection of compliance problems, as established by the security teams.  This release is made available in a number of developer marketplace IDEs, namely VSCode, Intellij and Eclipse, and will be available on the enterprise platform from July. Visit 42Crunch at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit-Stand #254.

42Crunch, the Developer First API Security platform company, announced at ASC the availability of the platform’s API Scan service inside the leading IDEs for developers. With over 500,000 developers already using 42Crunch, this addition to the platform means enterprises can further strengthen their shifting of API security as far left as possible into development workflows. DevSecOps approach The 42Crunch API Scan is designed to help enterprises develop secure APIs faster The 42Crunch API Scan is designed to help enterprises develop secure APIs faster, often as part of a DevSecOps approach. Developers can now use the service in their IDE of choice, to scan their API contract code for vulnerabilities and also get seamless fix/remediation advice. This helps save the security teams valuable time during reviews later down the line and avoid costly fixes. API testing and security Dale Gardner, Senior Director Analyst, stated in a Hype Cycle™ report that “API attacks have resulted in an endless stream of data breaches and other security incidents, yielding significant damage to organisations and individuals.” He adds, “As a consequence, DevSecOps teams — along with the business leaders whose applications are supported by APIs — are increasingly interested in API testing and security.” Authority comment Isabelle Mauny, the Field CTO and Co-Founder of 42Crunch speaking at the ASC 2022 said, “If enterprises aren’t addressing API security problems during the development workflow and only waiting to deal with them in QA, then it will take longer and cost more to fix these problems. The API Scan from 42Crunch helps security and dev teams reduce the time taken to implement security and accelerate the delivery of new services.”