Prolifics Group UK has officially been certified as a Great Place to Work® – a globally recognised standard for workplace excellence and culture.
This certification follows a detailed employee survey and an independent review of our culture, programmes and practices. By exceeding the Great Place to Work Trust Index® benchmark score of 65%, we’ve demonstrated a strong, people-first culture that drives collaboration, innovation and results.
Recognised for culture and excellence
This certification is based on direct feedback from our employees and reflects an environment where people feel trusted, respected and empowered to do their best work. It confirms that Prolifics Group UK is a place where talent can thrive and ideas can flourish.
Why being a Great Place to Work matters
Global recognition — Great Place to Work is the worldwide authority on workplace culture, analysing data from over 10,000 organisations across the globe. Proven performance — Certified companies consistently outperform the market by 2 to 3 percent each year, driven by engaged and motivated teams. Continuous improvement — The certification allows us to benchmark our progress and continue evolving how we support our people and customers.
Achieving Great Place to Work® certification reinforces our belief that when people enjoy where they work, they deliver their best. It’s this culture of trust and collaboration that helps make Prolifics Group UK not only a great place to work, but also a great company to work with.
About Great Place to Work Certification™
Great Place To Work® Certification™ is the most definitive “employer-of-choice” recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place To Work-Certified.
About Great Place To Work®
As the global authority on workplace culture, Great Place To Work® brings 30 years of groundbreaking research and data to help every place become a great place to work for all. Their proprietary platform and For All™ Model helps companies evaluate the experience of every employee, with exemplary workplaces becoming Great Place To Work Certified™ or receiving recognition on a coveted Best Workplaces™ List. Learn more at greatplacetowork.com and follow Great Place To Work on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
About Prolifics Founded in 1978, Prolifics is a global digital transformation leader with a rich history of innovation. With over 2,000 professionals across 10 strategic locations, the company serves clients in four core industries: Healthcare & Life Sciences, Banking and Financial Services, Retail and Manufacturing, and Energy & Utilities. Prolifics delivers tailored solutions in areas such as AI/ML, real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and hybrid cloud platforms.
Whether you’re connecting a new cloud HR platform or bringing legacy systems together, Prolifics has the MuleSoft expertise to help you achieve a people-focused transformation.
Why Integrate Your Systems?
Automated Workflows
Better Employee Experience
Real-Time Insights
Unified Employee Data
Future-Ready Flexibility
Why Choose Prolifics?
MuleSoft-Certified Experts – A trusted MuleSoft Partner with developers and architects who specialise in HR system integration.
Deep Experience – Over 30 years of integration projects across industries, including complex work for global organisations.
Proven Methods – Frameworks and reusable accelerators that save time and cost.
End-to-End Services – From strategy and platform evaluation to implementation and ongoing support, we cover the full lifecycle.
We deliver integration quickly and safely, without disrupting your day-to-day operations. Our team understands both the technology and the human side involved in any transformation thus ensuring your project is smooth, low-risk, and aligned with your goals.
A FTSE 250 international travel food company, known for brands such as Upper Crust and Millie’s Cookies, partnered with Prolifics to deliver a multi-million-pound HR transformation programme . Operating across 38 countries, the business faced fragmented HR, payroll, and point-of-sale systems that created compliance risks, delayed onboarding, and limited workforce visibility .
Using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform, Prolifics integrated SAP SuccessFactors as a single global HR system of record, enabling standardised processes, accurate HR data, and streamlined reporting . The programme introduced API-led architecture, robotic process automation, and secure role-based access controls to connect core HR, payroll, workforce management, and PoS systems worldwide.
Key results include:
With operations spanning over 38 countries, the company struggled with disparate HR, payroll, and point-of-sale (PoS) systems globally, resulting in:
Standardised global onboarding with faster IT provisioning and reduced admin overhead
Unified HR data for payroll and benefits processing across regions
Improved compliance and HR data governance through automation
Scalable integration architecture for future systems and global expansion
This transformation created a future-proof HR foundation, already connecting 14 benefits providers and scaling across multiple regions.
Read the full case study to see how Prolifics delivered measurable business value with MuleSoft and SAP SuccessFactors.
LONDON, UK – Prolifics, a global digital transformation company, has acquired Castaliaz Technologies, an SAP Gold Partner based in India. The deal adds more than 140 SAP specialists and a strong track record of 30+ S/4HANA transformations and 60+ SAP support projects to Prolifics’ operations in the UK and Europe.
This strengthens Prolifics’ ability to deliver SAP programmes quickly and reliably, while combining its own expertise in AI, data and automation with Castaliaz’s delivery skills.
What This Means for UK Clients
The acquisition creates a stronger SAP delivery capability for UK businesses:
Faster SAP Programmes – Proven delivery combined with AI-enabled testing and assurance.
Industry Solutions Ready to Use – Pre-built tools for pharmaceuticals, chemicals and manufacturing, such as Castalife and Castachem, to speed up deployments and reduce risk.
Support from Start to Finish – One partner for the entire SAP lifecycle, from first implementation to ongoing managed services and improvements.
Leadership Comments
Satya Bolli, Managing Director of Prolifics, said:
“Castaliaz strengthens our ability to deliver SAP programs at scale, embedding our AI-powered testing frameworks across the full SAP lifecycle. The acquisition aligns seamlessly with our expansion plans and commitment to delivering transformative value to our global client base across Europe, North America, and the Middle East”.
Ivan Noronha, Co-founder and Director of Castaliaz, said:
“Joining Prolifics allows us to help customers across industries modernise faster, from ECC to S/4HANA, through to RISE and SAP Analytics Cloud. Our ability to scale globally while maintaining delivery excellence in India offers transformative value to clients old and new”.
A Stronger UK Business
This move expands Prolifics’ UK offering by adding deep SAP skills to its existing strengths in quality engineering, open-source modernisation and Salesforce. The combined team offers UK clients flexible options for modernising their SAP systems, whether through greenfield, brownfield or hybrid approaches.
The business will operate as “Castaliaz, a Prolifics Company” during integration.
About Prolifics Founded in 1978, Prolifics is a global digital transformation leader with a rich history of innovation. With over 2,000 professionals across 10 strategic locations, the company serves clients in four core industries: Healthcare & Life Sciences, Banking and Financial Services, Retail and Manufacturing, and Energy & Utilities. Prolifics delivers tailored solutions in areas such as AI/ML, real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and hybrid cloud platforms.
About Castaliaz Established in 2008, Castaliaz is an SAP Gold Partner known for delivering complex, business-critical SAP programs. The company offers end-to-end lifecycle services and has successfully served more than 50 clients across various industries with signature projects like S/4HANA transformations.
Does your company prefer a multi-cloud environment? Using two or more cloud platforms so you aren’t putting all of your eggs in one basket? With multiple clouds you can avoid downtime and always have computing and storage available. Or perhaps, like many companies, you feel that cloud provides have specialty areas, and you want to take advantage of each provider’s strength. Or perhaps it’s as simple as not wanting to feel abound or locked in to one provider.
So you decided you want a multi-cloud environment. What’s the next step?
When creating applications that will operate across your multi-cloud environment, you need to account for all of the many little differences within each cloud platform. (That is, heaven forbid that competing platforms be standardized.)
That’s where Prolifics can help. In our unique innovation center, we leverage our experience to build next-generation solutions like our Cloud Template Builder. Cloud Template Builder offers an easy-to-use, visual drag-and-drop construct, so you can have your application ready to deploy across multiple cloud platforms simply and efficiently. It’s another type of “one-and-done” value add that comes from our cloud expertise.
About the Prolifics Innovation Center
The Prolifics Innovation Center leverages our experience to build next-generation solutions like our Cloud Template Builder. We provide the leadership and vision that keep organizations competitive. Our experts work closely with you to incorporate feedback and tailor solutions to your real-world business needs. If you’d like to learn more or become part of our Innovation Center, please email us at solutions@prolifics.com.
About the Author: – Greg Hodgkinson
Greg is a technology leader and engineer with a track record of establishing teams that deliver breakthrough solutions for business and enterprise IT.
At Prolifics, he works with teams that apply cutting-edge technology to our solutions, as well as approaches that cross practice lines and incorporate Prolifics’ digital IP into a foundation for innovation.
Prolifics UK, Prolifics Testing, and Tier 2 Consulting – all long-standing members of the Prolifics Global family – are now coming together to operate as one integrated UK business: the Prolifics Group UK.
While we’ve always shared values, goals, and ownership, we’ve been working as three separate entities. Now, we’re aligning our operations, services, and teams under a single brand – to serve our clients more powerfully and efficiently.
This strategic move brings together the deep technical expertise, trusted client relationships, and innovative thinking that each of our teams are known for. By coming together, we’re creating a stronger, smarter, and more scalable technology partner – with even more to offer our customers across the UK and beyond.
By combining our teams, capabilities, and services under one roof, we’ll be able to:
Deliver larger-scale solutions, faster and more efficiently
Offer a broader range of services and technologies
Tap into global expertise from across the Prolifics network
Support your digital transformation journey end-to-end
All while keeping the same friendly teams, customer focus, and quality delivery you already know and trust.
What This Means for You
✔️ No disruption – You’ll continue working with the same people, under the same agreements
✔️ More solutions – Access new services in cloud, DevOps, data, testing, AI, and more
✔️ Simpler engagement – One brand, one platform, one consistent experience
✔️ Global strength, local heart – We’re still proudly UK-based, backed by global scale
What’s Next
We’ll be launching a new unified website, aligning our branding, and sharing updates on how you can take advantage of our expanded offerings.
You may start to see emails, social media, and documentation updated with our new brand name – Prolifics Group UK – as we bring everything together.
We can’t wait to show you what’s possible when our teams unite.
Let’s Talk
If you have any questions, we’re always here to chat.
📧 Contact us: uksolutions@prolifics.co.uk
📞 Or reach out directly to your usual contact or account manager.
Together, we’re building one team, with one vision – and endless possibilities.
Faced with the dual challenge of regulatory compliance and inefficient manual processes, this global financial institution needed a customized solution to manage their precious metals trading. Learn how our automated Inventory Management System helped them streamline operations, reduce costs, and ensure compliance—all while gaining a competitive edge in the market.
Integration has been a fundamental concept in computing since the early days of software development. Web-based APIs, distinct from the concept of API technology (including remote procedure calls and libraries), have been around since the early 2000s. However, they have only recently become a key technology, gaining indispensability in the last five to 10 years.
Why Legacy Integration Tools Fall Short
Most organisations recognise the need for further integration in the modern business IT landscape. With the proliferation of on-site databases, SaaS applications, smartphone apps, and more, the challenge is to effectively utilise all these components simultaneously. As best-of-breed tech stacks become the standard and the number of apps used by employees increases, the demand for convergence intensifies.
In the past, connecting two machines or software pieces involved manually coding a point-to-point link. While effective in the early days of computing, this approach becomes impractical when dealing with the thousands of devices and applications prevalent in today’s businesses. Enterprise service buses (ESB) and middleware emerged as preferred integration solutions, acting as common communication hubs. However, their limitations, including scope and compatibility outside the corporate firewall, can hinder their effectiveness.
API Integration in Action
APIs are designed with cloud computing in mind, excelling in linking both cloud and on-premise applications. This versatility makes them well-suited for the hybrid IT configurations common in today’s companies.
“We live in an API economy, a set of business models and channels based on secure access of functionality and exchange of data,” notes Gartner analyst Christy Pettey. APIs facilitate integration across various platforms, connecting people, places, systems, data, and algorithms to create new user experiences and business models.
Consider Uber as a real-world example. The app relies heavily on APIs for features like maps-based tracking and mobile payments. Hundreds of thousands of drivers, passengers, and Uber developers can use the app simultaneously, thanks to well-coordinated APIs.
In corporate marketing departments, APIs enable efficient integration of various tools like CRM frameworks, email marketing tools, analytics solutions, and social media outreach tools. This integration through APIs allows the marketing team to build a cohesive stack, enhancing efficiency and profitability.
Meeting the Challenges of Tomorrow: Mobile Communication and IoT
The challenges in the IT world continue to evolve, with enhanced mobile communication and the Internet of Things (IoT) playing significant roles. APIs, with their cloud-centric and multi-user capabilities, are ideally suited to meet current and future integration requirements. Approximately 80 percent of workers use their own mobile devices for work, and a similar percentage has been equipped by their employer with laptops or computers.
Furthermore, the number of objects linked to the web is expected to rise by over 30 percent, reaching 8 billion by the end of the year. APIs prove crucial in addressing these evolving integration needs.
Integration and APIs: Today’s “IT Couple”
APIs are indispensable in addressing the diverse integration needs of modern enterprises. An integration framework that also manages APIs helps businesses leverage technology investments on both sides of the firewall, whether on-premise, SaaS, or in the cloud.
Enterprises can seamlessly link valuable data without the need to replace legacy systems. An API integration framework is versatile and scalable, making it adaptable to an all-cloud architecture if necessary.
As Gartner emphasises in “How Pervasive Integration Enables Your API Initiatives (and Vice Versa),” “APIs and integration technology are intimately correlated. API initiatives require integration technologies, and API-enabling technologies are essential components in any strategic integration infrastructure.”
Start Using API and Integration solutions for Your Organisation
As organisations modernise and start leveraging APIs to enhance their connectivity to systems, services, and data streams, ensuring that the right technology and frameworks align with your long and short-term goals can be a challenging process. This, coupled with a lack of expertise in system integration and APIs, often leads to a rapid path towards failure.
Prolifics is a trusted integration and API consultancy with over 30 years of experience in this space, serving as a long-term partner to the world’s largest organisations. We can assist your team in achieving your integration goals, opening new revenue streams, and implementing new technology.
We partner with industry leaders such as IBM, MuleSoft, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat, and many more to embed their technology with our own accelerators and processes, producing bespoke solutions that align with your needs and price point. Visit our integration and API page to explore how we can support you in your transformation and modernisation goals.
Have you ever likened your business’s IT team to a finely tuned race car? We have, but I’m guessing overall, the answer is a resounding ‘no,’ so bear with me. Your IT infrastructure and team are akin to that of a high-octane, sophisticatedly engineered machine—ideally, a McLaren, as I’m indeed a papaya fan.
But why a motor racing team, you may ask? Because it’s actually strikingly similar. You have a team of Race Engineers, akin to your Site Reliability Engineers (SRE), ensuring everything runs smoothly. You have a pit stop crew, comparable to an Agile Development team for making fast changes. A Race Principal can be likened to a CTO or Head of IT, who keeps the operation on track, and finally, the race car—on this occasion, not driven by the likes of Prost, Senna, or Hamilton; instead, it’s piloted by your business applications, with everyone on the team working collaboratively on it.
Like all motorsport teams, the goal is to take first place. From a business point of view, this is replaced by goals and targets of customer satisfaction, profitability, and ROI. So, why have I spent the introduction to this article drawing comparisons? Because it comes to the crux of the issue, which is—if your business application isn’t performing, you will fall behind the pack and won’t secure a coveted podium place.
This begs the question: How do we fix underperforming apps if we don’t know they’re underperforming? The answer is: Monitoring… or it was, but there’s something far more modern and powerful—Observability.
What is Observability?
Observability marks the next stage in the evolution of application performance monitoring (APM). While APM provides insights into your applications’ activities, observability goes beyond by not only showing you what’s happening in and around the application but also the environment, highlighting key causes for concern and insight for prompt decision-making. Through AI-driven context, information from applications and the environment is gathered and organised, allowing you to understand the data effectively. Application monitoring is automated, so that you can take intelligent action, optimise application performance and accelerate application development and integration.
This modern approach to applications is reminiscent of the modernisation in motorsports, where incredibly sophisticated sensors are implemented across the entire car to monitor and track performance, the status of components and even tire temperature, so the team can adjust and make changes rapidly; in turn providing an unmatched level of granularity into their race car and its performance.
Benefits of Observability over APM:
The big difference between APM and observability is lowering the Time to Resolution (TTR) by being able to view the entire IT architecture holistically. Observability doesn’t just track your application’s performance; it evaluates it and provides real-time information of your environment, so your team can adapt and change when necessary. Think of it as narrowing the scope of where the ‘needle’ is lost in the haystack.
This holistic view is vital in motorsports as the performance of the vehicle is paramount – for example if your driver is losing time on a lap and falling behind competitors, this indicates an issue somewhere. The car’s sensors provide a real-time insight and relay this data back to the ‘pit wall’ to give the team the intel required to remediate and fix the problem during a pit stop.
Why Observability is Essential to Modern IT?
Enterprise IT is forever evolving with new architecture, deployment methods and technologies emerging at a rapid pace, driving innovation and reshaping the digital landscape. With this evolution comes more data and more points of failure where observability can intelligently adapt and scale as a vital tool for IT teams across departments. Here’s how observability is helping:
Providing Real-Time Problem Identification:
Downtime can be more costly than ever, whether you’re on track or in a business environment. To exacerbate downtime, tracking the issue takes a significant portion of time, which time-poor IT teams often do not have. Worse so, with a small team you may not have the bandwidth to run troubleshooting and diagnostics while managing day to day activities. Observability software like IBM Instana revolutionises this process by providing an instant insight into your system’s performance, with an astonishing 3-second detection of anomalies or failure, anywhere in the system. So, instead of manually looking for issues under the bonnet and spending time testing each system, the problem is flagged instantly- giving engineers crucial time to make repairs.
Operational Efficiency with Observability:
Traditional monitoring provides only a sliver of your application environment, this obfuscates issues that reside or relate to your application. With smaller IT teams that concentrate solely on bringing value to the business via new innovation, operational efficiencies must be maintained. Observability, on the other hand, offers a comprehensive view of your entire application environment, allowing for a deeper understanding of its performance and potential issues. By providing this holistic perspective, observability facilitates operational efficiency by rapidly identifying, diagnosing, and resolving issues before they escalate. This proactive approach streamlines the overall performance of the IT infrastructure, ensuring that even nuanced problems are surfaced and addressed promptly. The broader visibility offered by observability enhances the proactive management of the application environment, optimising the IT team’s utilisation and efficiency. Simply put, if your car isn’t performing – the team can find the right slot in the race to pit, change tires and put you back into the race.
Data-Driven Decision Making:
Data is the steering wheel that navigates organisations toward success. By analysing logs, metrics, and traces, observability helps IT teams gain a comprehensive understanding of their system’s performance. This wealth of information empowers them to make informed decisions, ensuring that every move aligns strategically with overarching business goals. Just as a race car relies on precise steering for optimal performance, businesses equipped with observability data steer confidently through the complex landscape of IT, accelerating toward their objectives and to the podium.
Adaptability to Complex Environments:
Just as a racing team needs to adapt to changing weather conditions or unexpected track challenges, IT systems must navigate complex environments. Traditional monitoring tools may struggle with these complexities. However, observability, excels in adapting to intricate environments such as cloud-native deployments, microservices, and hybrid architectures. Its comprehensive view enables IT teams to swiftly adjust and optimise for peak performance, ensuring they have the correct setup that manoeuvres through any complexity with ease.
Competitive Advantage:
In the race for supremacy in today’s business landscape, observability emerges as the secret weapon that not only empowers the IT team but also propels the entire organisation to pole position. Much like a championship-winning car engineered to the highest specifications, organisations leveraging observability showcase their commitment to excellence, instilling confidence in both their audience and competitors. By swiftly resolving issues, optimising system performance, and prioritising user satisfaction, these brands craft a positive and compelling brand image that resonates with customers. This strategic focus on delivering the best possible experience signals a customer-centric approach, providing a distinct competitive advantage in the market.
IBM Instana – Not all observability tools are made equal
Leading the race for observability is IBM’s Instana. Offering powerful tooling, contextual information to understand all inter-dependencies, automated discovery and configuration to enable 1 second granularity metrics; Instana offers a highly sophisticated platform which is easy to use and quickly implemented to:
Reduce Risk – with quicker resolution of Incidents – Mean time to Detect (MTTD) can be reduced by 69% and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) reduced by 52%.
Increase Operational Efficiency – Time and effort can be reduced by 86%, leaving 20% more time for development. In addition, the all-in-one approach to gathering data and insights enables DevOps, Security, and IT Ops teams to work more effectively together.
Make Cost Improvements – Reduce cloud spend – make improvements to cloud efficiency by 75% and reduce cloud spend by 50%.
Increase Deployment Frequency – increase deployment of applications threefold, get the latest updates out to your business quicker.
Take Your Place on the Grid – Every Second Counts!
Overall, businesses looking to compete in a technology-led world need to be cognizant of customer experience; your application is a representation of your organisation and the less operational it is, the further your brand will fall behind the pack. Like a race-winning team, you need a strong strategy, a competent pit-crew, actionable data to make decisions and a performant car to propel you forward and get you your place on the podium; using observability gives you these tools to overtake the competition and provide a worthy app that satisfies clients, partners, and business-users alike.
Download our new whitepaper, Every Second Counts for a dive into the world of observability including how Instana is overtaking traditional monitoring, real-life examples and results of observability in action and actionable steps on how IT teams can start leveraging Instana.
To explore how observability can work for you, including how much business value you could recognise, use our calculator or visit our Instana page here to learn more.
In today’s digital landscape, the seamless exchange of data through APIs, middleware, and integration has become the lifeblood of businesses. Ensuring the security and reliability of these vital components is paramount. Let’s delve into four indispensable tips for safeguarding your APIs.
Manage Authentications
Securing APIs demands a deep understanding of user access and system authorisation, extending beyond basic security measures. A growing menace in the cyber landscape is “credential stuffing,” a tactic where malicious actors inundate APIs with fraudulent requests using stolen email addresses and passwords.
As more businesses shift to web apps for customer interactions, cybercriminals are redirecting their focus towards the APIs powering mobile applications. Prolifics’ integration and cybersecurity consultants, advocate a strict multi-factor authentication as a defence against credential stuffing. In high-risk sectors such as healthcare or finance, additional security is vital, including the use of complex, lengthy passwords.
However, even adding phone numbers as an extra layer of security falls short, thanks to evolving cybercriminal technology. The Open Web Application Security Project’s recent API Security Top 10 report highlights issues with incorrect implementation of authentication mechanisms, enabling attackers to compromise authentication tokens and assume other users’ identities temporarily or permanently.
Check Authorisations
With many businesses operating hundreds of APIs, it’s increasingly challenging to monitor who or what has access to critical information. Attacks on APIs are intricate, making detection difficult due to the overwhelming volume of requests, with each closely resembling the others.
API attacks tend to be highly targeted, often following API specifications. To address this, meticulous scrutiny of each request’s authorisation to access specific resources is necessary. Enterprises should understand and clearly define each service’s responsibilities in sanitising and securing data as it traverses through microservice architectures.
Authentication is often managed, but proper authorisation mechanisms are overlooked, exposing businesses to security threats. Object-level authorisation checks should be considered in every function accessing data sources via user input, as recommended by the OAS report.
IBM DataPower Gateway –a critical software solution with a multitude of security features, guaranteeing the safety of your data during transmission and processing. These features encompass comprehensive authorisation checks. The precise methods and their deployment, however, may differ based on the configuration and integration of IBM DataPower within your unique IT environment. This adaptability ensures your data remains secure, regardless of your specific setup.
Microsoft Azure API Management- a robust software solution empowering you to efficiently manage APIs, ensuring secure data exchange and processing. This includes robust authorisation controls, though the precise mechanisms and implementation can be tailored to your specific needs. Azure API Management offers flexibility and customisation, adapting seamlessly to your IT infrastructure for reliable, secure, and controlled data transmission.
MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager- empowers organisations with robust API management. It ensures secure and efficient data exchange while providing adaptable authorisation controls tailored to specific requirements. Known for its flexibility and customisation, Anypoint API Manager seamlessly integrates into IT infrastructures, offering reliable, secure, and controlled data transmission solutions, whether you’re streamlining business operations or securing APIs.
Organise Security Team Setup
Security teams should be strategically structured to involve the entire organisation, fostering cohesion. A well-organised approach is crucial to address API security challenges effectively. In a digital transformation era, system-wide visibility is imperative for security teams. Collaborative visibility tools that cater to development, DevOps, and security teams are essential.
Modern security tools which leverage AI and advanced threat-detection, ease the workload for security professionals, replacing legacy cybersecurity systems that required extensive training.
Many enterprises, who are in the early stages of a digital transformation need to be aware of ‘Shadow IT’ – as more outside services are allowed into the ecosystem. IT teams need to stay vigilant and ensure their choice of API software is secure from the get-go.
Scrutinise Third Parties
Third-party providers introduce risks, even when businesses employ robust security practices. The landscape of security has evolved from traditional IT oversight, as divisions embark on their ventures, ushering outside services into organisations. Businesses must gain a comprehensive understanding of third-party access, using security questionnaires, integration testing, certification requests, and reports. Yet, even these measures may leave vulnerabilities.
An alarming example involves a vulnerable API linked to India’s national ID database, affecting over 1.1 billion citizens. In this case, a security lapse allowed an unauthorised entity to access the Aadhaar database, which raised concerns about the necessity for strict access controls, robust data governance protocols, and effective rate limits to protect sensitive data from cybercriminals.
A new player in the Advanced API Security Market- NoName Security
Manage and secure your APIs with the advanced cybersecurity capabilities offered by IBM and Noname Security. With an increasing reliance on APIs for seamless data exchange, ensuring their proper management and security is crucial. Discover, assess, and analyse your APIs to detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and abnormal traffic in real time. Prioritise and remediate potential issues intelligently to reduce costs and enhance security.
What we think: NoName security is an API security tool Prolifics are incredibly excited about- this powerful software can deliver highly secure APIs fast, ensuring that your attack surface shrinks considerably to eliminate blindspots in your API landscape. The feature-set is vast but two things we enjoy about NoName is:
The ability to locate, catalogue and then track every API in your portfolio regardless of their API types (HTTP, REST, SOAP, GraphQL etc.)
The powerful real-time attack management using AI and ML detection to identify data leaks, tampering and data-policy violations.
In conclusion, securing your APIs, middleware, and integration processes is multifaceted and demands a proactive and collaborative approach. By fortifying authentication, prioritising authorisation checks, fostering collaboration across security teams and diligently monitoring third-party access, can enhance your API’s security and protect your organisation’s valuable data assets.
With only 55% of security professionals testing their APIs for security vulnerabilities and with 1 in 13 cyber incidents occurring because of insecure APIs, ensuring the right process, paired with the right software is essential.
Remember, the journey to API security is ongoing, and staying updated on emerging threats and evolving best practices is crucial in this ever-changing digital world.
By Vikesh Kaushal