Expertise

API management & API security

APIs connect applications, business partners and digital services. We make their inventory, access and operations manageable. API management and API security belong together, from architecture and migration to testing and handover.

Discuss an API project

An API gateway controls access to interfaces; API management also covers rules, ownership and the API lifecycle. API security connects these platform rules with the assessment of permissions and the actual behaviour of connected applications.

Services

A focus backed by architecture and implementation experience.

Our experts bring experience ranging from centralised and decentralised API architectures to migrations, API inventories and security assessments. We consider the platform and its connected applications together.

API strategy & governanceClarify the inventory, ownership and requirements. Rules for documentation, versioning, approvals and retirement create a traceable API lifecycle.

API management & target architectureAssess gateway solutions such as Tyk, Axway, Kong, Apigee or Azure API Management against integrations, security requirements and the operating model. Make the architecture concrete before selection and adoption.

Platform migrationMove interfaces and teams step by step. Plan compatibility, certificates, parallel operation and rollback through to controlled retirement of the legacy platform.

API securityInventory APIs, prioritise risks and assess critical access paths. Penetration tests and automated test cases provide reproducible findings with specific actions.

Identity & accessDesign integration with identity services such as Keycloak and ZITADEL. Align roles, machine identities, authentication and certificate management with the applications.

API ops & observabilityDeliver routes and policies as code with review and rollback. Connect usage, error and latency signals with monitoring and operations.

Onboarding & handoverTemplates, documentation and guided adoption for application teams. Establish ownership and operational procedures that support lasting platform use.

Working together

Three useful starting points.

Organise your API landscape

You receive a view of the inventory, risks and ownership. This informs a prioritised path towards shared rules and a suitable platform.

Introduce or migrate an API platform

We support selection, architecture and implementation, including automation, team onboarding and controlled retirement of the existing platform.

Improve API security

We agree the assessment scope and critical business workflows, examine access and support remediation. Results feed into development and operational processes.

API DAST

Assess running APIs with a defined scope.

Dynamic Application Security Testing examines the behaviour of a running API. Requests and responses are assessed within an agreed scope, security findings are documented clearly and fixes are retested.

From test to findingAgree the test environment, access and assessment objectives together. Reproducible findings with affected endpoints and concrete steps make prioritisation and remediation easier.

Part of engineeringIntegrate repeatable checks into development workflows, review the results with your teams and retest resolved vulnerabilities.

One example from product development is Venedy, an API DAST platform in its pilot phase. It is developed by Venedy GmbH, a legally separate company with the same shareholders as Hueskotech.

Technologies

What we work with here.

Gateways

Tyk
Kong
Azure API Management
Apigee
MuleSoft
Axway

Runtime

Kubernetes
AWS Fargate
Docker

Automation

AWS CDK
Terraform
GitLab CI
cert-manager

Identity & auth

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
mTLS
Keycloak
ZITADEL

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Experience across projects

The expertise we bring.

Hueskotech’s experts bring together experience from different projects and enterprise environments. This experience informs our consulting and delivery.

Architecture & migration

API migrations and gateway architectures

Migrations between different infrastructure and gateway solutions, including transitions from centralised to decentralised architectures. Our expertise covers solutions such as Tyk, Axway, Kong and Apigee, from target architecture and compatibility to adoption and handover.

Platforms & API ops

API management across the lifecycle

Designing and evolving API platforms with governance, access policies and automated delivery. Infrastructure as code, policies, versioning and observability connect architecture with operations.

Inventory & assessment

Embedding API security

Mapping API landscapes, assessing access paths and risks, and carrying out penetration tests and automated checks. Findings are prioritised, linked to remediation and integrated into development and operational processes.

Qualifications: CCSK (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge), HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Wiz.

Workshops

Related workshops.

Workshop · German or English

API Security

Why the most expensive API flaws have no signature, and how a team finds them on its own.

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Workshop · German or English

DevSecOps

Security checks as a quality gate in the pipeline, with findings developers actually fix.