Nowadays, companies utilize APIs as the working backbone of operations to foster innovation, facilitate operations, and respond to client needs. However, the greater the number of APIs in circulation, the more the risks that accompany them. Without the required protective security structures in place, APIs stand to be misused by cybercriminals, engendering data breaches, compliance issues, and operational interruptions.

At Massil Technologies, our approach to API management leverages the WSO2 API Manager which ensures API protection as a priority. Our experience helps companies transform, manage, and govern APIs with security at the core of the process which reduces vulnerabilities whilst being nimble. In this blog, I will detail how Massil uses WSO2 to strengthen an organization’s API ecosystem against emerging threats.

 The Increasing Demand for Secure API Management

During the digital transformation process of an organization, APIs become the central point for the integration of systems, applications, and any outside services. This means that the deployed interfaces for programmatic access to APIs need to be secure and well managed. Unfortunately, most contemporary API gateways fail to deliver protective capabilities, leaving companies vulnerable to data exfiltration, injection attacks and even data silos.

Massil Technologies overcomes this challenge by integrating with WSO2’s entire API security framework which features Identity and Access Management (IAM), encryption, traffic masking, throttle controlling, compromise tracking, and regulations monitoring. Our approach creates unmatched security by preventing sensitive enterprise data from cyber threats through the zero-trust framework.

Important Security Capabilities of WSO2 API Manager

Secure Authentication and Authorization Using OAuth2 and JWT

WSO2 Identity and Access Management seeks to resolve issues about credential stuffing attacks and unauthorized API calls through secure API authentication using OAuth2, JWT, and OpenID Connect. APIs are quite easily accessed without authorized permission. The logic gets further amplified with the implementation of large-scale credential stuffing attacks, which also leads to mass credential abuse. JWT (JSON Web Token) guarantees that only verified people and applications are able to perform credential stuffing abuse. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) adds another level of protection. OAuth2 prevents any unauthorized data access through the means of stuffing tokens. Also, API transactions that are secured through signed tokens are protected through JWT validation. The Role-based access control (RBAC) provides additional layers of security alongside Multi-Factor Authentication.

Protection Against API Threats Using Enhanced Security Policies

There are many systems and devices that have the ability to make use of ultraviolet technologies. To protect these systems from malicious acts and abuse, Massil integrated WSO2’s basic built-in API security policies. The most relevant are as follows:

• Prevents unauthorized IP access: Those who lack a trusted source will be prevented from accessing and using the system.
• Rate limiting and throttling: The system will limit the requests made per second to avoid DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service).
• Schema Validation and Payload Inspection: The system will guard against SQL Injection, XML Bombs, and XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attacks through strict data input validation of the API.

Protecting the API Gateway with End-to-End Encryption

Because APIs are often liable to exchange sensitive data between different enterprises, security adjustment through encryption is a must. Massil implements end-to-end TLS encryption within SO2 API Gateway mitigating any possibilities of attack while the data is in transit by protecting the information against Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks. API traffic is encrypted with strong cipher suites and a TLS 1.3 protocol. Also, communication between microservices is secured through mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. More importantly, the data integrity verification is conducted through API request and response signing.

API Anomaly Detection and Security Monitoring Supported by AI Tools

• Massil’s AI-enhanced threat intelligence system provides WSO2 with comprehensive monitoring capabilities and OverTx detection technologies to put an end to these problematic incidents. These are some of AI methods that can be used:
• Behavioral analytics to uncover patterns of unauthorized use of the API.
• Automated security alerts through IoT devices for suspicious activity like excessive authentication attempts that were not successful.
• API security dashboards that run in real time for compliance and governance.

Setting the Massil API for Compliance in Controlled Environments

For enterprises engaged in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, government, among others, APIs need to be made compliant to GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS. Massil assists organizations that construct visions for business strategies that could provide development in achieving these requirements through WSO2 API governance framework by giving them the ability to:

• Set audit logs and be able track and monitor API access.
• Implement data masking and redaction features to prevent users from exposing PII (Personally Identifiable Information).
• Perform automated compliance checks so that no unnecessary rules are broken.

Why Choose Massil for Secure API Management?

Security at the Heart of API’s Operations

Unlike traditional API integrators, APIs deployed at Massil have a security feature at the forefront of its operations. It is designed to help enterprises operate with the ease that they do not have to compromise on agility. Massil proactively employs threat mitigation strategies for enterprises’ success.

WSO2 API Security Customization Expertise

Massil possesses high level engineering capabilities and with these, we focus on hybrid API security deployment through High availability boilerplate designs. Massil claims tremendous seamless performance with constant API traffic as a trusted partner in the WSO2 implementation.

Versatile Security to New API Opportunities

Massil builds proof architectures like scalability in API security which always makes them considerable and attainable by emerging threats while business agility and security is maintained.

Conclusion: Massil Technologies Enables WSO2 API Ecosystem Security

Organizations must adopt a proactive approach to secure sensitive data, a compliant policy and a maintained business continuity rather inaction against the API attack rise. Massil Technologies with the help of WSO2’s API security framework offers high security risk elimination and helps enterprises in avoiding unauthorized access for strong API protection.

Reach out to us for a consultation and find out more on how Massil can protect your API structure with WSO2 on [email protected].