Security Strategy Session: API Security 2.0 - Transforming APIs from your weakest link, to your strongest border force

Sydney - March 5, 2025 |  Melbourne - March 12, 2025

It’s a sobering fact: API security breaches are at the top of executives’ concerns for protecting the digital safety of customers, partners, and colleagues.

As responsible stakeholders in ever-widening ecosystems that now extend beyond corporate boundaries, organisations can simply focus their efforts on API security risk mitigation. Or, they can view API security as an opportunity to finally realise what has felt like security nirvana: embedding security best practice at every step in the API engineering lifecycle.

And automating it at scale.

API security can be a good news story too.

Companies such as Ford, BT, Travelers and Verizon have made security part of their API design DNA. They’ve taken a practical approach to putting API security testing to work as the foundation for rapidly scaling API governance enforcement across their enterprises.

These organisations measure their API portfolios in the thousands or tens of thousands, across high complexity technology landscapes with different models for API governance and control.

Using OpenAPI specification as the key to Security by Design.

  • Done right, the OpenAPI specification enables the OpenAPI definition to act as the single source of truth to scale API security across sprawling API estates and growing API consumption volumes.
  • Organisations that are applying this as part of what we think of as API Security 2.0, are seeing benefits well beyond an improved API security risk profile.
  • Scaled compliance and governance for all actors in the engineering lifecycle. Tighter cross-functional team collaboration with improved productivity and faster take-up of innovation opportunities. Simpler engineering experiences for in-house and partner development teams.

Rethinking API Security: the realities.

Getting to the next level of API security—while navigating multiple layers of day-to-day operational needs and supporting sustainable change—is easier than it sounds.

Managed adjacent to, or as part of, wider engineering efficiency standards; AI readiness initiatives; or overarching IT security practices. There are practical ways to experiment, get going, and scale. Regardless of organisational size and complexity.

We are excited to have teamed up with Claire Barrett of APIsFirst to bring you an exclusive in-person strategy session on rethinking API security for 2025 and beyond.

Who will benefit?

This is a small format conversation for leaders who are involved in: setting and executing IT and API security strategies and policies; governing IT design and integration decision-making; or implementing engineering practices that balance pace without compromising security.

Sign up if you or your colleagues find any of the following familiar:

  • Seeking better visibility and governance into engineering teams’ take-up of API security policies.
  • Still fearful of API security vulnerabilities that you’re unsure how to remediate at scale, despite investment in API discovery and API management.
  • Ramping up your focus on API security and unsure where to start.

Speakers

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Claire Barrett

Director
APIsFirst

Claire is director and founder of APIsFirst based in the UK, and co-founder of The API Collective. She has worked at senior and executive levels in globally recognised corporations on four continents. She consults to executives, teams and individuals who are leading API-enabled changed in their organisations. She regular speaks and writes about API strategies, people and organisational change with a focus on the human factors. She leads a global Women In APIs community with some 900 members in 45 countries.

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Axel Grosse

Global Head of Presales
42Crunch

Axel brings years of experience of leading presales and solution architect teams to implement best in class API security and management solutions for large and medium-sized enterprises. Prior to 42Crunch he led the Axway Amplify team in EMEA and also oversaw their presales team’s expansion in the APAC region. He has held similar roles with Vordel and before that Oracle in the DACH region. An industry recognised authority on all things API related, Axel regularly delivers training workshops at industry and customer events to advance the industry’s level of knowledge.

Where & When?

Sydney

Sydney CBD

Wednesday March 5, 2025
08:00 - 09:30.

Refreshments will be served

Melbourne

Melbourne CBD

Wednesday March 12, 2025
08:00 - 09:30.

Refreshments will be served