Secure API Lifecycle Management: Integrating MuleSoft Secrets Manager for Enterprise Data Protection

Authors

  • Venkata Pavan Kumar Gummadi

Keywords:

API-led connectivity, secrets management, MuleSoft, Anypoint Platform, DevSecOps, zero trust, runtime secret injection, TLS lifecycle, enterprise integration security

Abstract

The growth of API-led connectivity and cloud-hosted integration platforms has expanded the number of credentials, certificates, tokens, and cryptographic assets that enterprise teams must protect. Traditional MuleSoft approaches, such as encrypted secure property files, reduce plain-text exposure but still tie secrets to application packages, developer workflows, and redeployment cycles. This paper presents an updated enterprise pattern for integrating MuleSoft Anypoint Secrets Manager into the API lifecycle so that secret creation, access governance, runtime consumption, rotation, and audit are treated as platform controls rather than application-local configuration tasks. The proposed architecture combines least-privilege role-based access control, centralized TLS context management, runtime secret injection, envelope encryption concepts, and DevSecOps evidence collection. The result is a repeatable model for reducing credential exposure, improving rotation discipline, and aligning API operations with contemporary cybersecurity frameworks.

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Published

26.12.2021

How to Cite

Venkata Pavan Kumar Gummadi. (2021). Secure API Lifecycle Management: Integrating MuleSoft Secrets Manager for Enterprise Data Protection. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, 9(4), 537 –. Retrieved from https://www.ijisae.org/index.php/IJISAE/article/view/8420

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 4 (2021)

Section

Research Article

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