Secure API maintenance
Secure API maintenance involves ongoing activities to ensure that APIs remain resilient, reliable, and resistant to evolving security threats throughout their life cycle. It encompasses monitoring, updating, and optimizing APIs to address security vulnerabilities, compliance requirements, and changing business needs. This stage is characterized by the following phases:
- Patch management:
- Stay informed about security patches and updates for software components and dependencies used in API implementations, including frameworks, libraries, and third-party services
- Implement a patch management process to deploy security patches promptly, minimizing the window of exposure to known vulnerabilities and exploits
- Vulnerability scanning and assessment:
- Perform regular vulnerability scans and assessments of API endpoints and underlying infrastructure to identify potential security weaknesses and misconfigurations
- Conduct periodic penetration testing exercises to...
