I want a software bill of materials for the APIs and services we depend on, so that we always know what is actually in the systems we ship. Every external API we consume is a dependency, and if we cannot enumerate those dependencies and their provenance, we cannot answer basic questions when a vulnerability, an outage, or a licensing issue lands on someone else's platform. Maintaining an SBOM turns that fog into an inventory we can query the moment we need to. For the business this is the difference between reacting in minutes and reacting in days when a supplier has a problem, and it is increasingly what our own customers and auditors expect from us. For the humans operating these systems, it is the reliability and security of knowing exactly what they are standing on.
API Dependencies Have an SBOM
Policies
Dependency SBOM Maintained
Require that every API maintain a current software bill of materials enumerating the libraries, services, and versions it depends on. I want a machine-readable SBOM and dependency manifest kept in ...
Experiences
Procurement
Procurement is the experience of evaluating and adopting an API before building on it. Whether the API comes from another team or a third-party vendor, someone has to weigh its quality, reliability...
Provenance
Failing to understand your API history increases the risk of repeating past mistakes in future API development. Establishing provenance for each API helps track changes over time and ensures new ow...
Security
API security is a top priority for any enterprise, with even higher standards for externally available APIs. However, security doesn’t end with the APIs an enterprise produces—it also applies to co...
Reliability
If an API isn’t reliable, consumers will eventually look for alternatives. Reliability starts with the platform and infrastructure where the API is deployed, but it also depends heavily on the pace...
