All APIs must be mapped to applicable regulatory and compliance requirements including GDPR, SOC2, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA, ensuring that API designs, data handling, and operations satisfy legal obligations and can be audited for conformance at any time.
APIs Meet Regulatory and Compliance Requirements
Policies
Compliance Mapping (Governance)
Require that every API in production maps its endpoints, data, and controls to the specific regulatory and compliance obligations it falls under, whether that is GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, or an ...
Policy Exceptions (Governance)
Require that any deviation from a governance policy is requested, justified, time-boxed, and approved through a documented exception process rather than quietly ignored. I have learned that rigid r...
Data Classification (Security)
Require that every API classifies the data it moves and applies protections that match that classification, so I want fields and payloads labeled as public, internal, confidential, or regulated, wi...
Privacy Policy
Publishing a privacy policy covering the producer and consumers of an API, as well as end-users of applications, adding to the legal resources that are available to 3rd party developers when puttin...
Terms of Service
Making sure that terms of service are front and center for API consumers, ensuring that the legal side of using API resources and capabilities in applications and integrations by 3rd party consumer...
API Licensing
Publishing a license for the interface, client code, server code, and data to ensure consumers understand the legal implications of using the API, code, and data into their own applications and int...
Logging (Operations)
Require that every API produces structured, correlated logs for each request, so I want a consistent log schema, a correlation or trace identifier carried through, and clear rules about what gets c...
Experiences
Compliance
Compliance is the experience of meeting the legal, regulatory, and internal obligations that come with operating an API. For many teams it feels like a burden bolted on at the end, but the reality ...
Legal
The legal aspects of producing and consuming APIs can quickly derail even the best-laid plans for API producers and disrupt the roadmaps of developers building applications and integrations. Terms ...
Trust
Establish trust with API consumers will evolve and build over time, and is something that can be lost in a very short period of time. Trust will depend on other experiences like quality and reliabi...
Governance
Governance is the experience of keeping API operations consistent and aligned as they scale across teams and time. It is the discipline that connects strategy at the top to the rules being enforced...
Alignment
Achieving alignment between teams producing APIs and their consumers is a persistent challenge in API operations. Effective collaboration between business and technical stakeholders requires ongoin...
