API Monitoring vs Infrastructure Overhead
Implement risk-prioritised, intelligent API monitoring to fulfil NIS2 incident detection obligations while controlling infrastructure overhead.
CyberTRIZ analysis · Banking contradiction OB017 · one of 8,235 worked contradictions published by CyberTRIZ.AI
Regulations
Business Context
Continuous API monitoring improves security and operational visibility but increases processing, logging, and storage requirements.
Banking TRIZ Resolution
Use intelligent monitoring that prioritizes abnormal behaviour, performance degradation, and security anomalies instead of recording every event with identical detail.
Recommended Principles
Principle 2 - Taking Out
Principle 21 - Skipping
Principle 23 - Feedback
Expected Outcome
Better monitoring
Lower infrastructure costs
Faster incident detection
TRIZ principles applied
P2 Taking OutP21 SkippingP23 Feedback
Controls that address this (22)
EU_NIS2-CTRL-001 - Daily safeguarding reconciliationoperational · critical priority · Daily reconciliation between safeguarded customer balances, core ledger balances and safeguarded bank accounts. Variances above EUR 100 mustEU_NIS2-CTRL-002 - Critical ICT incident reportingoperational · critical priority · All major ICT incidents impacting payment services, customer data or availability must be classified within 4 hours and reported under DORA EU_NIS2-CTRL-003 - GDPR breach notification workflowoperational · critical priority · Personal data breaches must be assessed within 12 hours and reported to the Belgian DPA within 72 hours where risk to data subjects exists.