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API Security: From Design Principles to AI-Era Defense

Designing, governing, and defending APIs with confidence

Secure APIs from the Ground Up

API security is no longer optional, it’s a must! In today’s AI-driven landscape, APIs are the backbone of modern applications, and protecting them requires intentional, automated, and policy-driven strategies. This course guides you through designing, governing, and defending APIs with confidence, ensuring your systems remain resilient against emerging threats.

From Design Principles to Real-World Defense

Learn to tackle API vulnerabilities head-on. Explore hidden security gaps, OWASP’s top risks, and secure-by-design principles, while applying policy-driven governance with tools like Open Policy Agent. Through practical examples and expert insights, you’ll understand not just what to secure, but how to implement robust API protection across architectures and platforms, preparing your organization for the challenges of the AI era.

Take Your Skills to The Next Level

Article| The Ghosts in the Machine: Invisible Security Risks of APIs | Karl Gonzi

Discover the invisible security risks of modern APIs. Karl Gonzi uses real-world examples to show how quickly APIs can become a gateway for attacks and why companies often overlook the risks. Learn how to identify typical vulnerabilities early on and proactively improve the security of your API architecture.

Article | API Security Best Practices | Tobias Polley

Learn the key best practices for secure APIs. Tobias Polley explains in practical terms how broken object level authorization (BOLA) and other typical API vulnerabilities can be prevented. Get actionable strategies for securing APIs at the object level, closing modern attack vectors, and ensuring the protection of your web, mobile, and IoT applications.

Article | Open Policy Agent: Unified Control for API Security | Nikolai Dück, Johannes Brühl, Kevin Port

Learn how Policy as Code (PaC) and Open Policy Agent (OPA) unify security and governance for APIs, cloud, and Kubernetes. Learn how to define security policies as code, automate them, and seamlessly integrate them into CI/CD pipelines. This ensures that your API security strategies are implemented consistently, scalably, and reliably, even in dynamic, distributed systems.

Session | Securing APIs in the AI Era with a DevSecOps-Driven Approach | Anubha Gaur

Discover how to proactively protect APIs in the age of artificial intelligence. This session shows how DevSecOps methods embed security controls directly into the development cycle. Learn how to integrate automated security testing (SAST, DAST, API fuzzing) into CI/CD pipelines, implement zero-trust frameworks, and use AI-powered threat detection for multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Session | Evolving API Governance in the Age of AI | Ikenna Nwaiwu

Learn how modern platforms efficiently support API development and DevOps. Discover best practices in platform engineering, including CI/CD automation, internal developer portals, API and data governance, and AI deployment. Our experts will show you how to develop, optimize, and successfully implement scalable, standardized platforms in teams.

Session | Bullet-Proof APIs: The OWASP API Security Top Ten | Christian Wenz

Secure your APIs according to the latest standards. This session covers the OWASP API Security Top Ten, highlights the most important risks for web applications and APIs, and provides practical countermeasures. Learn how to identify, prioritize, and defend against vulnerabilities to make your API architecture robust against attacks.

Session | Practical API Security: Learn to Attack – and Defend – Your APIs | Tobias Polley

Gain practical insights into API security. Tobias Polley explains offensive and defensive strategies, demonstrates the OWASP API Security Top Ten (2023) with real-world examples, and shows how API gateways, annotated OpenAPI documents, and targeted rate limiting can be used to protect APIs against attacks and DoS attempts.

Session | Secure by Design: Patterns and Principles for API Security | Jose Haro Peralta

Learn how to design secure and reliable APIs from the outset. This session covers API design reviews, identifying security risks, and best practices for modern applications. Discover how to use OpenAPI for secure APIs and build a robust API security program that ensures long-term protection and compliance.

Session | From Chaos to Calm: Navigating Emerging API Security Challenges | Richard Meeus

Bring order to insecure API landscapes. This session teaches you how to analyze existing APIs, identify security vulnerabilities, and systematically secure them. You will learn how structured API design reviews, security guidelines, and OpenAPI documentation can turn chaotic structures into secure, stable, and efficient interfaces.

Expert knowledge for…

API developers who want to secure and harden their endpoints against modern threats.
DevOps and DevSecOps engineers seeking to integrate security into CI/CD pipelines.
IT architects and security leads responsible for policy-driven governance and scalable API security.
Software teams and platform engineers aiming to design secure, resilient, and AI-ready APIs across cloud and hybrid environments.