APIs for Zero Trust Implementation: Offering Practical Security Information
Prior to a security breach, API-based integration can help organizations gather actionable intelligence and streamline data collection. In addition, API gateways that enforce policies capture responses and requests that occur when data is exchanged between systems.
In the event of a compromise, they provide a proactive audit trail that authorities can use to assess the impact of a breach. API gateways that enforce policies also capture the requests and responses involved in exchanging data between systems. This can be very useful later when an agency is trying to determine what data has been exchanged between a consumer and a data system - something batch-oriented data synchronization scripts are not capable of doing.
Moving to Zero Trust with APIs
Government agencies today are dealing with more data overload and complexity than ever before. At the same time, they also have to deal with increasing security threats.
In the current threat environment, it is imperative for government agencies to modernize their approach to security. Implementing zero-trust strategies can help them do this, but to implement this new security model, agencies must reevaluate how they integrate data. Adopting a comprehensive API management platform that includes gateways for stronger policy enforcement, intrinsic security, the ability to extract business logic from legacy systems as well as modern systems, and provides a developer portal that allows system engineers to better understand the functionality of an API will enable agencies to successfully implement zero trust and modernize with much less risk.