With more than 15 years of working with APIs and API Gateways, security was always a central aspect of Axels work as presales, innovation lead and team leader in companies like Vordel, Axway.
Recently, as Head of Payment in a UK based startup the need of security was imminent and lead to a structured approach beyond just adding a tool or gateway to cover security. Also, the usual habit to have a security team do a review very late in the application development process is not leading to more security, but into shortcuts and tentative fixes to cover up the requirements. Sharing this experience and helping other to improve security is an important concern for Axel.