Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) ishow modern companies give their end users access to their digital properties,as well as how they govern, collect, analyze, and securely store data for thoseusers.
Modern applications are built usingAPIs, and API Authorization is a core component of CIAM. This makes APIAuthorization a critical part of API Security!
Okta,Auth0,and others have built billion dollar business on making API authenticationsimple and secure for enterprises.
There is a new wave of companiesdoing the same for API Authorization. Authorization as a Serviceis a fast growing market category driven by a slew of OSS and commercialvendors including Zanzibar,Styra,Oso,Permit.io,Aserto, etc.
Insightful blogs from Carta, and Gusto describe the significant effort involved in implementing and maintaining a robust/secure API authorization solution.
Suboptimal API authorization results in data breaches from exploits such as Horizontal Privilege Escalation, and Vertical Privilege Escalation.
Often API authorization is retrofitted into existing applications, making visualization of authorization behavior a necessity.
Carta and Gusto describe how visibility of API access patterns was critical in implementing proper access controls.
Carta’s API Permissions Visualizer
When you have hundreds of APIs spread across dozens of distributed service teams, ensuring that your API permissions are solid, is undifferentiated heavy lifting.
In his insightful paper, Phil Venables (CISO Google Cloud) talks about the need to validate your access controls continuously.
API access controls are good only if they work correctly. Many data leaks are due to misconfigurations in the access control model for APIs.
Levo’s Continuous API Security Assurance, empowers modern development teams to proactively maintain a robust API security posture.
Levo’s agent-less/no-code instrumentation provides API observability throughout the API development lifecycle.
Levo’s API Observability answers the following questions:
Levo continuously & automatically, validates the security posture of your APIs, throughout the software development lifecycle, and ensures a robust API Security posture.
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Harish