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CCSP · Question #700

Which crucial aspect of cloud computing can be most threatened by insecure APIs?

The correct answer is A. Automation. Cloud environments depend heavily on API calls for management and automation. Any vulnerability with the APIs can cause significant risk and exposure to all tenants of the cloud environment. Resource pooling and elasticity could both be impacted by insecure APIs, as both…

Submitted by katya_ua· Apr 18, 2026Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Security

Question

Which crucial aspect of cloud computing can be most threatened by insecure APIs?

Options

  • AAutomation
  • BResource pooling
  • CElasticity
  • DRedundancy

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    88% (21)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • D
    8% (2)

Explanation

Cloud environments depend heavily on API calls for management and automation. Any vulnerability with the APIs can cause significant risk and exposure to all tenants of the cloud environment. Resource pooling and elasticity could both be impacted by insecure APIs, as both require automation and orchestration to operate properly, but automation is the better answer here. Redundancy would not be directly impacted by insecure APIs.

Topics

#Insecure APIs#Cloud Automation#API Security#Cloud Management

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