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For this week’s interview, I’m very happy to welcome Dormain Drewitz, Director Product Marketing at Pivotal. Philipp Schöne (PS): Hi Dormain (DD), can you please present Pivotal in a few words? DD: Pivotal’s mission is to transform how the world builds software. We’re a four-year old company, with offices in nearly 20 cities worldwide. Over a third of the Fortune 100 work with Pivotal to build and run applications on our cloud-native application platform.

With the growth of REST APIs inside enterprises, but also outside their boundaries in their ecosystem, monitoring, protecting, and preventing attacks is key, and REST API security is of paramount importance. Not only failures in security implementations get API project stakeholders on alert, but also regulations like PSD2 have been kick-starting initiatives to standardize security implementations.

With the growing number of API clients, it’s becoming more important to have a comprehensive API client registry that enables managing all API clients. What do you get in an API client registry? The API client registry is basically the system of record for all your API consumers and API providers. As APIs are usually consumed or provided by more than one person, the notion of organizations or teams is the first level of organization in such a system.