Security News > 2021 > December > Let there be light: Ensuring visibility across the entire API lifecycle

The following article is based on a webinar series on enterprise API security by Imvision, featuring expert speakers from IBM, Deloitte, Maersk, and Imvision discussing the importance of centralizing an organization's visibility of its APIs as a way to accelerate remediation efforts and improve the overall security posture.

In these organizations, it is imperative to have a centralized API location with deployment into each of these locations, to ensure greater visibility and better management of API-related business activities.

Here's what you should pay attention to when evaluating a full lifecycle API security solution.

According to Moe Shamim, the API lifecycle can be boiled down to the pillars found in the image below.

You can look at each of these aspects as controls you inject at every stage of the API lifecycle.

Tony Curcio claims that one of the key tenets in the governance of API programs is coordination between the API producers, product management, and consumers.

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