Mike McGuire is a Product Marketing Manager at Wiz, where he focused on go-to-market strategy for developer experience, API Security, and ADR. Previously, Mike worked in application security product marketing, owning software composition analysis and software supply chain security. He brings over ten years of experience in enterprise software, with more than half of his career spent in security-focused roles. Mike began his career as a software developer before moving into product management and product marketing, giving him a strong foundation in how modern systems are built, deployed, and secured. He aims to translate real-world engineering and security challenges into practical, scalable solutions for modern cloud and software teams.
In this article you’ll get a clear understanding of design best practices—and how tools that provide full visibility, context-aware attack mapping, and unified code-to-cloud coverage can give you more peace of mind.
API management is about how you actually govern and protect your cloud app's biggest attack surface—your APIs—from day one.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is an XML-based messaging protocol standardized by W3C that’s popular for its predictability, strict contracts, and strong security features. The protocol is the basis for SOAP APIs: The SOAP protocol defines the rules, and SOAP APIs are the actual implementations of those rules.
Claude Code is a terminal-based agentic coding tool that reasons across entire repositories and executes multi-step tasks autonomously, while GitHub Copilot is an IDE-embedded assistant built for real-time inline code suggestions. They solve fundamentally different problems, and many teams use both.
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API security standards are the formal specifications, protocols, and frameworks you apply across the API lifecycle to ensure strong API endpoint security.
To achieve a strong API compliance posture in the cloud, you need code-to-cloud coverage. In other words, you need to build API compliance into your CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and runtime environments.
API security testing is the process of validating that APIs are protected against abuse, misconfiguration, and sensitive data exposure. Unlike functional testing—which checks whether an API works—security testing looks for ways an API can be misused.
An API risk assessment is a systematic process for evaluating the APIs used across an organization.
