API Security Buyer’s Guide

Overview of API Security Requirements

Whether you’re a security leader, development manager, governance executive, or information officer, you have a role to play in the protection and management of your growing constellation of APIs. This guide brings a logical mapping and scope of work to organize your API security solutions. It’s designed to help close the gaps among groups as they come together to improve their API security posture and reduce the business risks associated with today’s rampant and increasingly mission-critical use of APIs.

In this guide, you will find content on:

• The emerging problem in API security
• A strategy for API inventory and ownership
• Steps to countering top API threats
• Architectural approaches to API security
• An API security requirements framework