# Securing & Managing API Products: A Guide for Product Owners

Product Owners sit at the intersection of user needs, business outcomes, and technical execution. When it comes to APIs, they must balance delivering value quickly with ensuring robust security and compliance. But how can Product Owners champion security when they don’t write code or configure infrastructure directly?

In this session, we’ll explore how modern product teams are securing and managing their API products by embedding policy-driven security and operational controls into the development lifecycle. You’ll see how platforms like Kong Konnect empower Product Owners to define guardrails, monitor risk, and partner effectively with development and platform teams, without becoming bottlenecks.

Discover how to reduce security risks across the entire API lifecycle using automation-driven guardrails that ensure every API meets standards before it’s exposed. Leverage continuous governance and scorecards to identify non-compliant APIs and services, align product-level API decisions with organizational policies, and collaborate across teams to enforce them automatically. Gain the visibility you need to manage compliance across environments and regions.

Whether you’re launching your first API product or scaling a global portfolio, this webinar will arm you with the practical tools and mindset needed to build secure, scalable APIs from day one.

Key Takeaways:

• - Define Security Standards at the Product Level: Learn how to establish baseline security requirements that align with business and regulatory needs.
• - Automate Policy Enforcement Through Collaboration: Discover how to work with platform and security teams to automate security checks and governance.

• - Gain Visibility Into API Product Risk: Understand how to track security, usage, and compliance metrics across the API lifecycle.