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API and Integration Security
Secure your data in motion, protect your services and build trusted digital solutions with expert-led API and integration security
API and Integration Security
APIs and integrations are the lifelines of modern architectures but they also open new pathways for threat actors, data exposure and operational risk. Securing them means going beyond perimeter defence. It’s about controlling who calls what, how data moves and what happens when something breaks.
API and Integration Security focuses on protecting the flow of data between systems whether internal, partner-facing or public by applying authentication, authorisation, rate limiting, encryption, input validation and monitoring at every stage of the lifecycle.
Our Clients
Businesses that have trusted us
The benefits of getting API and Integration Security right
Prevent unauthorised access and data leakage
Protect sensitive data and business logic from exposure through strong authentication, authorisation and data filtering mechanisms.
Improve threat detection and visibility
Monitor usage patterns and detect anomalies, misuse and potential breaches in real time through integrated logging, rate limiting and behavioural analysis.
Ensure compliance and governance
Meet regulatory expectations (e.g. GDPR, PSD2, HIPAA) by embedding access controls, consent management and data minimisation strategies into your APIs.
Protect third-party and partner integrations
Secure your external APIs with granular scopes, signed tokens and strict interface contracts that define and control what’s possible.
Enable secure innovation
Foster agile and scalable integration without sacrificing security posture, ensuring DevOps and API teams can work at speed with guardrails in place.
Ready to start improving your API and Integration Security?
Integrations fuel your business, but they also introduce real risk if left unchecked. Talk to Claria about how to secure your APIs without slowing delivery.
Get in touchHow can we help you and what do we do?
From the first technical discussions to live traffic in production, we embed secure-by-design principles into every layer of your API ecosystem.
Our services include
API Security Architecture and Design
Develop secure-by-design API patterns including authentication models (OAuth2, JWT), transport encryption (TLS) and identity propagation strategies. We define gateway-layer protections and service mesh controls.
Third-party and Partner API Security Reviews
Vet external APIs and design secure onboarding processes using scoped API keys, dynamic secrets, mutual TLS and automated contract validation.
Secure API Gateway Implementation
Configure and harden platforms such as WSO2, Boomi API Gateway, Apigee and Kong to enforce policies like rate limiting, IP whitelisting, schema validation and traffic inspection.
Developer Training and Secure Coding Practices
Train teams on secure API development and provide static/dynamic testing tools such as OWASP ZAP, Snyk and API fuzzers.
Identity and Access Integration
Integrate APIs with IAM platforms (Okta, Azure AD, ForgeRock) to enforce fine-grained role-based and attribute-based access control (RBAC/ABAC) and token validation protocols.
Team Augmentation
We provide certified professionals who work alongside your delivery, platform or governance teams, short or long term.
API Lifecycle Governance
Define and enforce policies around versioning, deprecation, auditing and approval workflows. Prevent shadow APIs and ensure consistent exposure.
Managed Services & Support
Our managed services include ongoing monitoring, threat detection, incident response and SLA-based support to keep your API layer protected 24/7.
Threat Detection and Anomaly Management
Implement logging and monitoring for API behaviour anomalies using tools like Datadog, Elastic and Sentinel. Integrate WAFs and runtime threat detection.
The technologies we use at Claria
At Claria, we work with leading API security technologies across identity, policy enforcement, runtime protection and developer tooling. We help organisations build security into every stage of the API lifecycle, not as an afterthought, but as a core design principle.
We work with the following technologies
API Gateways & Service Meshes
IAM & Token Management
Monitoring & Runtime Security
Developer Tools & Testing
How to tackle these projects?
A strong API security posture comes from structure, not improvisation. We help organisations approach these projects with clarity, focusing on visibility, consistency and automation from day one.
Get in touchHere’s how we typically structure our approach:
1. Start with visibility and inventory
Identify all APIs in use, whether public, internal, or partner-facing. Document their ownership, exposure and data sensitivity.
2. Define and enforce standards
Establish architectural patterns and development guidelines that define how APIs should be designed, authenticated, documented and tested.
3. Embed security early in the lifecycle
Ensure that threat modelling, secure design reviews and dependency analysis happen during planning, not post-deployment.
4. Integrate with CI/CD pipelines
Automate static and dynamic security testing as part of your delivery pipeline. Include policy-as-code to enforce governance.
5. Enable ongoing monitoring and enforcement
Use API analytics, log aggregation and anomaly detection to identify attacks or misuses. Define alerting thresholds and incident response playbooks.
6. Align to frameworks
Map controls and activities to OWASP API Security Top 10 and NIST Zero Trust guidance, ensuring architectural consistency and stakeholder assurance.
Common mistakes made in API and Integration Security initiatives
As integration landscapes grow, so do the risks that come with poor visibility, inconsistent governance and misplaced assumptions. These are some of the issues we see most often when API security isn’t part of the foundation:
Relying on authentication alone
Even trusted users can act maliciously or make mistakes. Without proper authorisation, input validation and throttling, APIs remain vulnerable.
Exposing inconsistent or undocumented APIs
Shadow APIs and poorly governed endpoints open up attack surfaces you can’t monitor or control.
Overlooking internal APIs
Just because an API is internal doesn’t mean it’s safe. Internal services need the same level of protection as public ones.
Lack of central governance
Without a unified API security model, teams adopt fragmented tools and policies, making oversight and enforcement difficult.
Postponing security testing
Security can’t be retrofitted. It needs to be present from design to deployment, or gaps will follow code into production.
Are you making these common API security mistakes?
We help you avoid the pitfalls from shadow APIs to insecure internal services. Contact us to start a security review.
Get in touchWhy choose Claria
At Claria, integration is at the core of what we do. We bring a deep understanding of how APIs interact across distributed systems, legacy platforms, cloud services and external partners. That means we don’t just secure endpoints, we design and implement security at every layer of your integration landscape.
Here’s what makes our approach different:
We secure the architecture, not just the edge.
From the gateway to internal services, we design API ecosystems that are consistent, traceable and resilient to change.
We work with your existing platforms.
Whether you're using WSO2, Azure API Management, Boomi, AWS Gateway, we make them work securely and coherently within your environment.
We combine integration, identity and delivery.
Our teams understand how IAM, DevSecOps and API strategy intersect. That means fewer gaps, more clarity and solutions that last.
We plan for security from day one.
Rate limits, authentication, error handling, audit trails, versioning, we embed them into the design, not as a checklist at the end.
We build with your teams.
Security works best when it’s understood. We work alongside your developers, architects and compliance teams to design controls they can use, test and maintain.
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