Long-form, vendor-neutral guidance on API security architecture, identity, access control, secrets, zero trust, encryption, DevSecOps, resilience, and compliance evidence.
Build an API security evidence model that connects inventory, access, encryption, change control, logging, resilience, and incident response to governance obligations.
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Turn API security requirements into repeatable design, code, test, build, deployment, and operations checks across the delivery lifecycle.
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Use multi-factor authentication, step-up checks, session locking, and reauthentication to protect sensitive API actions without treating MFA as a blanket cure.
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Build rate limits and overload controls around identity, operation cost, fairness, and failure containment—not only requests per IP.
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Design encryption into API transport, storage, payloads, and key operations without confusing confidentiality with authorization.
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Apply zero-trust principles to APIs by establishing workload identity, explicit policy, protected service paths, and continuous evidence.
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Build a secrets lifecycle for API keys and service credentials that covers issuance, delivery, storage, rotation, revocation, and evidence.
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Compare OAuth, API keys, mutual TLS, and signed requests, then choose an authentication pattern that fits the caller, channel, and risk.
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Design an access-control API that evaluates identity, action, resource, tenant, and context consistently—without creating bypasses or brittle policy calls.
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Understand what a security API does, where it belongs in an architecture, and how to design controls that remain dependable under real traffic and failure conditions.
Read articleUse the LockAPI guides to connect identity, authorization, secrets, encryption, resilience, and evidence into one operable architecture.
