API Management: An Architect's Guide to Developing and Managing APIs for Your Organization

© Brajesh De 2017

Brajesh De, API Management, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1305-6_7

7. API Security

Brajesh De¹ 

(1)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

APIs provide a very good opportunity to build engaging and innovative customer experiences. They help businesses build new channels of integration and partnership. As companies look to expose their assets and data as REST APIs in an effort to provide new customer experiences and expand their business, security becomes a main concern. To a chief security officer at an enterprise, it is of paramount importance to secure the APIs and protect underlying assets from misuse, attacks, or any kind of threat. The security threats to APIs can be of various types. The security model to protect against these threats depends on ...