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Shadow API Discovery Basics

Find unmanaged APIs

Discovering shadow APIs means scanning traffic, gateways, and codebases to inventory endpoints, classify data sensitivity, and bring them under governance with auth, rate limits, and monitoring.

Discover

Scan logs/gateways/repos for undocumented endpoints.

Assess

Classify data and auth; check for missing controls.

Govern

Add auth, rate limits, monitoring; document in the catalog.

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