Topic: Building an API Risk Management Program for Enterprises
Speaker: Dr. Baljeet Malhotra
CPE Hours: 1
Background: Web APIs have transformed digital applications of enterprises across various industries. It’s not surprise that APIs now contribute 83% of the Internet traffic on the Web. Given such importance of APIs in digital transformation at enterprises, it is imperative for Audit, Compliance and Security professionals to better understand basic API risks that pose a challenge to their organizations. In this session, we'll first identify various basic API risks that originate from within the enterprise API ecosystems. This session will then provide an overview of an API Governance framework that effectively manages API risks. We’ll also highlight best industry practices and hands-on examples for API Risk Management.
Learning Objectives: Understand the Global and Enterprise API Ecosystem
Build an API Risk Management Program
Speaker Bio: Dr. Baljeet Malhotra is an award-winning researcher and a global tech leader known for his work in Open Source and API Risk Management. He founded TeejLab in 2019 and steered the team to build API Discovery and Security™, world's first end-to-end API Risk Management platform. Prior to TeejLab, he established the R&D unit of Black Duck Software in 2016 (acquired by Synopsys for $565 million). He also served as Research Director at SAP and Senior Software Engineer at MahindraTech.
He received a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Alberta and won several awards including NSERC (Canada) scholar and Global Young Scientist (Singapore). He concurrently holds Adjunct Professor positions at the University of British Columbia, University of Victoria and University of Northern BC. He has given numerous ISACA, ISSA, IIA, ISC2, OWASP talks globally, and published several papers and patents at international venues.