Ownership of API security
Your API security strategy cannot exist in isolation from your organization’s API business and development strategy. As a security leader, you must understand the other stakeholders responsible for API strategy and delivery to ensure that your security strategy aligns with their objectives.
Ownership of APIs tends to vary from one organization to another, and there is no hard and fast rule regarding how it is assigned. In the Further reading section, there is a reference to a blog post from MuleSoft that describes a typical pattern for API ownership; we will use this to frame our discussion. This is shown visually in Figure 13.1:
Figure 13.1 – API ownership model
There are three main API owners in this model:
- IT-owned APIs: This ownership model aligns most closely with traditional IT systems where the IT department wholly owns the resources. These are core services such as infrastructure provisioning or...
