FEATURE: PROACTIVE SECURITY
such as data leakage, unauthorised access and misconfigured integrations. WSO2 mitigates these risks through comprehensive identity and access management, fine-grained policy enforcement, traffic monitoring and secure API gateways. By standardising API security across all endpoints, we reduce attack surfaces while preserving developer agility.
Can you elaborate on a specific WSO2 product or feature that balances developer autonomy with centralised governance?
WSO2 API Manager is a great example. It allows developers to create, publish and manage APIs independently, while enforcing central policies for authentication, authorisation, throttling and auditing. Governance here plays a positive role by not slowing teams down but ensuring no mandatory security checks are missed. Automated policies further help detect common API threats and anomalies, with dashboards providing visibility into potential attacks. This dual approach ensures developers can move fast with confidence, while every API consistently adheres to enterprise security and compliance standards.
What do you predict will be the next major security challenge from this developer-centric agenda and how should organisations prepare accordingly?
As organisations increasingly adopt distributed cloud-native architectures and internal developer platforms, managing identity, trust and access across an expansive network of APIs will be the next big challenge. Organisations need to adopt dynamic, context-aware security models, invest in observability for API traffic and enforce Zero Trust principles across all internal and external interfaces. Security must scale with developer freedom and not constrain it. p
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