Secure API Development — Australia-focused

Designing and delivering resilient, compliant APIs for Australian enterprises and startups. We specialise in secure authentication, rate-limiting, threat modelling, and cloud-native deployments across AWS/Azure/GCP.

  • API design & OpenAPI/AsyncAPI contracts
  • OAuth2 / OpenID Connect / mTLS
  • Pen-testing, threat modelling & secure CI/CD
API security

Our API Services

API Strategy & Architecture

Contract-first design, versioning strategy, and API gateway selection aligned to Australian privacy and data residency needs.

Secure Implementation

Serverless or containerised APIs with hardened runtimes, secrets management, and automated security testing.

Monitoring & Incident Response

Logging, observability, rate-limits, and runbooks to meet SLAs and incident handling expectations in Australia.

Development Process

  1. Discovery: dataflow, compliance, API consumers mapping
  2. Design: OpenAPI contracts, payload schemas, auth
  3. Build: secure pipelines, IaC, automated tests
  4. Operate: monitoring, scaling, continuous hardening
Development process

Security practices (accordion)

We run STRIDE-based threat workshops, data classification, and mitigations aligned with Australian data protection expectations.

Implementation of OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS and fine-grained RBAC/ABAC for APIs, including guidance for federated identity with Australian providers.

Static analysis, SCA, container scanning, and policy gates with automated rollbacks to prevent insecure code reaching production.

Case studies

Case study 1

Fintech API modernization

Rebuilt payment orchestration APIs with PCI-aware design and tokenisation for an Australian payments provider.

Case study 2

Healthcare integrations

Secure HL7/FHIR gateway with role-based access control and audit trails meeting Australian healthcare privacy guidelines.

Team & Contact

Lead architect

Alex Morgan — Lead API Architect

Security-first architect with experience in enterprise API platforms and cloud-native secure deployments.

Sydney, Australia
+61437829105