Zero Trust Security for your APIs
summary
Argues that applying never trust always verify to APIs needs four concrete moves: least privilege per endpoint, full logging and rate limits, and a single control plane. Demonstrates on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform / API Manager using a RAML mock API, adding a JWT HMAC token validation policy with a 256‑bit key, generating a static token, and showing the policy initially fails then accepts authorized requests. Cites ~41% of orgs hit by API attacks and notes a 30‑day trial.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Zero Trust Security intro
- 1:28Security critical for systems
- 3:12Perimeter vs Zero Trust
- 6:21Zero Trust core principles
- 9:55API threats and importance
- 10:59Zero Trust with micro-segmentation
- 13:06Enforcing Zero Trust mechanisms
- 17:43API security best practices
- 18:04Demo setup and API management
- 21:18Security rules and governance
- 26:13Centralized management with API Gateway
- 27:38JWT validation policy
- 34:49Reviewing Zero Trust
- 35:12Summary
- 36:36Next steps and resources
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