Dr. Baljeet Malhotra is an award-winning researcher known for his work in Open Source and API Risk Management. He conceived the world's first "API Composition Analysis" based on source code static analysis. He founded TeejLab in 2017 and steered the team to build API Discovery and SecurityTM, world's first comprehensive 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). He also served as Research Director at SAP. 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.
Description of Meeting:
Did you know that 96% of Web Applications contain some Open Source and 99% of such Open Source contain some Web APIs? Although, APIs benefit organizations immensely through accelerated innovations, newer business models, competitive differentiation, but organizations are also negatively impacted by APIs due to their weak security posture leading to business disruptions, legal and compliance issues. APIs have become the most frequent attack vector resulting in data breaches posing various types of risks to businesses. This session will provide an overview of an API Governance framework for effective API Risk Management. This framework is inspired by the Zero Trust model that enterprises can use as a “Swiss Knife” for reducing their API related risks. We’ll also highlight the best practices and hands-on examples for API Risk Management.