API SECURITY & MANAGEMENT

API Security: Why think the other way around?

With the growing importance of data for your organization data security is one of the key challenges to address properly. Not being compliant to regulations or vulnerable for internal and external treads can have significant financial implications. Organizations start to open up their application and data to be used by external users like customers, suppliers, partners. These information exchange touchpoints need to be secured by technology that cannot be compromised, keeps up with the latest security standards and can be implemented and maintained by your organization. Implement security first then share data.

API Management solutions have really come into existence since API’s have become so important for digitization in modern business. Such platforms are develop for access policies, availability, publishing of API’s and anything else you would expect from an API Management solution. And although modern platforms will provide some basic security capabilities they were never actually developed with the security requirements of today in mind. They were added through acquisitions, added on but not really integrated of rely on third party products. That is why we suggest to start with API Security in mind. Work according to “secure by design” with a solution that has the Security First principle.