The lack of visibility into Shadow APIs poses significant risks to organizations, including reliability issues, operational cost increases, business non-compliance, and inherent security incidents. Shadow APIs are all the APIs a business is using but not tracking, which can expose them to unnecessary data loss, financial damage, and reputational risk. To mitigate these risks, it's essential to expand visibility into shadow APIs and manage any hazards they pose. Techniques for discovering shadow APIs include monitoring traffic, proxying, reviewing logs, and scanning code. Organizations should create policies, standards, and procedures for API management, monitor API traffic, centrally store logs and payloads, setup alerting, follow security standards and best practices, retire unused APIs, and build good habits into their SDLC and DevOps processes to effectively manage shadow APIs and mitigate the risks they pose.