API Governance
Our approach to API Governance promotes the use of API security best practices to minimize risk, and to optimize the value that APIs bring to your customers.
API governance typically involves a combination of technical and non-technical measures, including:
1. Defining API design and development standards, such as the use of specific technologies or architectures
2. Establishing policies for how APIs should be documented, tested, and deployed
3. Setting guidelines for how APIs should be secured and managed, including authentication and authorization protocols
4. Defining roles and responsibilities for API development and management, including who is responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining APIs
5. Establishing processes for monitoring and reporting on the use and performance of APIs
6. Providing support and training to API developers and users to help them understand and follow API governance policies and practices.
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3rd-Party API Risk
It can be challenging to manage the risks associated with exposing APIs to external parties, and ensure the security and privacy of API data.
There are security and privacy risks, legal and regulatory risks, as well as the risk of misuse or abuse of APIs. -
Complex Ecosystem
As the number of APIs and API users within an organization grows, it can become increasingly difficult to manage and oversee their use.
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Lack of API Strategy
Without a clear API strategy, it can be difficult to ensure that the APIs being developed are aligned with the overall business objectives of the organization.
This can lead to APIs that are not fit for purpose or do not deliver the desired value.
API Governance
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Eliminate
API SprawlDiscover and catalog all APIs in your environment - internal, external, 3rd-party, and partner, and sensitive data flows between them. -
API Risk AssessmentObtain an API risk assessment, discover where you are vulnerable, and get recommendations to reduce risk. -
Protect
All APIsStop API attacks, business logic abuse attacks, as well as API abuse, fraud, and sensitive data exfiltration.
In this whitepaper, we answer the most pressing questions about API Security and API Governance, and how organizations can start implementing a governance strategy that aligns with their objectives.
The paper covers how to overcome common challenges, API ownership, API data classification, and how to assess risk.
Support API Governance
An important step in establishing API Governance, is to gain complete visibility into your API sprawl.
Traceable automatically discovers all of your APIs in a data-rich catalog for a complete always up-to date inventory of your API ecosystem. This includes HTTP, RESTful, GraphQL, SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, and gRPC.
This ultimately addresses lack of visibility, also identifying any shadow and orphaned APIs, and notifies of any real-time API changes. Traceable maps your app topologies, any data accessed by any APIs, and sensitive data flows, including connectivity between edge APIs, internal services, and data stores.
An important aspect to API Discovery is being able to see exactly where sensitive data resides and where it traverses across multiple points.
API Catalog maps your app topologies and data flows, including connectivity between edge APIs, internal services, and data stores.
Automatically detect and stop known and unknown API attacks, business logic abuse attacks, as well as API abuse, fraud, and sensitive data exfiltration.
1. Detect anomalies, exfiltration, attacks
2. Runtime exploit prevention
3. Defend against attacks- OWASP Web Top 10, OWASP API Top 10, and many others.
4. User and threat actor tracking
5. Business Logic Abuse Protection
6. Stop data exfiltration, fraudulent activities, and bot mitigation
7. Create and track incidents and other security issues
API Governance Initiatives
Data Collection and Deployment
Built for Massive Scale
Traceable supports very large deployments consisting of thousands of API endpoints, and billions of API calls -- with flexible data collection and deployment options, including agentless or agents, depending on your needs.
1. fully out-of-band via network log analysis of AWS, GCP, and Azure Clouds,
2. Collection by instrumentation within your API gateway, proxies, or service mesh, and
3. in-app data collection through instrumentation by language-specific agents or socket filtering.
For highly regulated industries, Traceable can be deployed 100% on-premise in a fully air-gapped model, without sacrificing protection, speed or scalability.
Zero Trust API Access
Today’s cloud-based, API-driven, microservices-based applications all extensively operate using APIs to communicate between users/NPE’s (non-person entities) to applications, and between applications and application components.
API Security solutions are essential to aligning Zero Trust thinking with the realities of today’s application architectures and extending the Zero Trust security model to the full application stack.
However, to date, APIs have been largely neglected by Zero Trust models. In addition, digital transformation demands and DevSecOps processes at organizations have created new gaps and vulnerabilities attackers can exploit.
Traceable's API security platform builds on your Zero Trust Security strategy. We map to the NIST Zero Trust framework, as it covers reference architecture, data security, as well as compliance measures for defense in depth security.
Threat Intelligence and
Root Cause Analysis
Traceable provides robust analytics and threat intelligence capabilities that power root cause analysis, forensic research, and incident response.
1. API security data lake: collect and analyze the end-to-end path trace of all API calls and service behaviors. An API security data lake allows your SOC team, incident responders, threat hunters, as well as red teams and blue teams to conduct instant security analysis and root cause analysis.
2. Understand API traffic and user attribution: Understand API traffic history of user attributed transactions, sequences, and flows and perform post mortem reviews and analysis for any API security incidents.
3. Threat Hunting to reveal unknown API vulnerabilities: Perform threat hunting to reveal potentially unknown API vulnerabilities and visualize user behavior analytics to uncover fraud and abuse.
This level of security analytics enables SOC teams and threat hunters to optimize APIs and service behaviors to prevent the possibility of any data breach, ransomware, abuse, or data exfiltration.
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