Strengthening API Security: How Massil Technologies Leverages KrakenD for Enterprise Protection

Strengthening API Security: How Massil Technologies Leverages KrakenD for Enterprise Protection

With APIs becoming essential for digital transformation, API gateways have unfortunately become prime targets for cybercriminals. As per a recent study conducted by Trend Micro, critical security vulnerabilities were found in some of the most commonly used API gateways. These vulnerabilities included exposed administrator panels, lack of credential policies, insufficient logging, and Remote Code Execution (RCE) allowing for threat data to be exfiltrated.

Here at Massil Technologies, we were more than aware of such issues. That is why we chose to strategically partner with KrakenD, an ultra-fast security-focused API gateway solution. By leveraging KrakenD’s unique architecture, Massil makes sure that enterprises are able to deploy scalable, resilient, and ultra-secure API infrastructures.

In this blog, we will discuss how Massil’s knowledge and expertise in API security combined with the powerful features of KrakenD helps eliminates vulnerabilities, helps protect important sensitive data, and constructs future proof API ecosystems. expertise in API security, combined with KrakenD’s robust features, helps organizations eliminate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and future-proof their API ecosystems. 

Minimizing the Attack Surface with Secure API Exposure

A common flaw in traditional API gateways is overexposure—leaking sensitive information through query strings, response headers, or internal status codes. Attackers exploit these weaknesses to map API structures and identify vulnerabilities.

How Massil & KrakenD Secure API Exposure:

  • Blocked Query Strings & Headers: By default, Massil configures KrakenD to prevent unnecessary query strings and headers from being exposed, minimizing injection risks like SQLi (SQL Injection).
  • Obfuscation of Status Codes: Internal status codes are masked, preventing attackers from gaining insights into backend failures.
  • Data Sanitization & Encoding Protections: Massil ensures that double encoding, multi-encoding, and payload manipulations are neutralized—preventing OWASP Top 10 attacks. 

Eliminating Misconfigurations & Enforcing Secure Defaults

Many API security breaches stem from misconfigurations, such as open admin panels, default user credentials, or unverified API access.

Massil’s Approach to KrakenD Configurations:

  • Immutable API Gateway Configurations: Massil locks down API configurations post-deployment, preventing unauthorized runtime modifications.
  • No Admin Panels or Default Credentials: Unlike other gateways, KrakenD eliminates admin panels, reducing risks of credential stuffing attacks.
  • Preconfigured Secure Defaults: API authentication and access controls are set up with strong policies, ensuring every endpoint is protected from day one. 

Mitigating Time-Based API Attacks

Slowloris, SQLi Blind Time-Based Attacks, and Resource Exhaustion Attacks exploit API timeout mechanisms, keeping connections open indefinitely and consuming resources.

How Massil & KrakenD Prevent Time-Based Attacks:

  • Short Default Timeouts: KrakenD enforces tight connection timeouts, preventing slow attack strategies.
  • Protection Against Blind SQLi: KrakenD’s time-based attack mitigation makes SQL inference techniques ineffective.
  • Rate-Limiting & Connection Control: Massil implements adaptive rate-limiting across APIs, ensuring API usage is balanced and attack vectors are neutralized. 

Strengthening Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Centralized identity providers create security bottlenecks and become a single point of failure (SPOF). Massil addresses this by designing decentralized, stateless identity validation within KrakenD’s ecosystem.

Massil’s IAM Best Practices with KrakenD:

  • Stateless Identity Validation: Eliminates reliance on a single identity provider, reducing the risk of large-scale credential leaks.
  • mTLS & OAuth2 Security Layers: Ensures encrypted, verifiable identity authentication at every request level.
  • Zero-Trust API Access Policies: Massil configures KrakenD with Zero Trust principles, enforcing strict role-based access controls (RBAC) to APIs. 

Securing API Cryptography & Logging

Excessive logging and weak cryptographic implementations often lead to unintentional data exposure.

Massil’s Secure Logging & Cryptography Implementation:

  • Modern TLS & Cipher Suites: Massil ensures TLS 1.2+ compliance and disables weak encryption standards.
  • Sensitive Data Exclusion from Logs: KrakenD logs are hardened to exclude API keys, authentication tokens, and PII data.
  • Minimal Information in Traces: By default, KrakenD limits trace information, preventing potential forensic data leaks. 

Full Control with On-Premise Deployment & Secret Management

For security-sensitive organizations, trusting a cloud API gateway provider with sensitive traffic is a major concern. Massil ensures on-premise control and encrypted secret management when deploying KrakenD.

Massil’s On-Premise & Secret Management Strategy:

  • On-Premise API Gateway Deployments: Massil enables fully managed, self-hosted KrakenD solutions, ensuring that API traffic remains within the organization’s controlled environment.
  • Secure API Secret Handling: API keys and credentials are stored securely using HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or Azure Key Vault—eliminating plaintext secrets. 

Distributed Rate-Limiting & High-Availability API Protection

Many API gateways centralize rate-limiting logic, creating bottlenecks and single points of failure. Massil implements distributed rate-limiting for seamless scalability.

Massil’s Scalable Rate-Limiting Approach:

  • Clustered Rate Limiting: API traffic is balanced across multiple nodes, preventing overload on any single service.
  • No Centralized Failure Points: Unlike legacy API gateways, KrakenD’s rate-limiting is fully stateless and distributed.
  • Dynamic Traffic Throttling: Massil fine-tunes API request limits based on real-time traffic analytics, ensuring optimal performance while maintaining security.

Conclusion: API Security is a Priority at Massil Technologies

Today, it is in every enterprise’s interest to adopt an API-resilient infrastructure. Because of that, security is no longer something that can be brushed aside. Massil Technologies with its partnership is able to help enterprise’s API security while simultaneously helping defend against threat actors with advanced security measures that aid the enterprise with confidence in an ever-changing threat landscape.

Why Choose Massil for KrakenD API Security?

  • Deep expertise in API security & governance
  • Customized KrakenD deployments for enterprise needs
  • Proactive vulnerability assessments & remediation
  • Scalable, high-performance API architectures

Ready to enhance your API security? Connect with Massil Technologies to secure your enterprise APIs with KrakenD’s cutting-edge protection today.

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