NOV Inc. Intelligently Boosts API Security

Objective

As part of their digital transformation, NOV Inc. sought to establish a strong security layer to properly authenticate, authorize, and monitor access to approximately 140 APIs across the organization. They required visibility into all user activity, the ability to track global traffic for audits and governance, and a way to quickly identify API abnormalities and breaches.

Challenge

Rapidly delivering secure access to data through APIs presented challenges for NOV’s complex infrastructure, which included various ERP instances and data spread across multiple data lakes globally. The organization relied on static threat checks that were neither completely secure nor easy to use. They needed a self-learning system to understand behavior-based threats and a solution that could be implemented with minimal effort from developers and digital integrators.

Solution

NOV Inc. chose PingIntelligence for APIs integrated with the Axway Amplify API Management Platform. This solution uses artificial intelligence to learn traffic behaviors and automatically detect and block threats across two clouds (Azure and AWS) and three data centers. The integration provides a unified view of activity, enabling NOV to differentiate between good and bad traffic, catch bad implementations, and monitor partner compliance.

Results

Implementing PingIntelligence for APIs has given NOV Inc. deep insights into their API calls, allowing them to catch issues before they become costly. The integration with Splunk and out-of-the-box dashboards allows the security team to identify and remedy abnormal activities easily. Furthermore, the length of time to publish APIs has been drastically shortened from weeks to mere hours, increasing the productivity of both app and API developers.