Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect
by Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal
Chapter 7: Securing APIs
In the modern world of technology, security is one of the most essential non-functional characteristics of any platform or solution. It is especially true of an API as an API's outreach is the defining feature of its success. More the number of consumers of an API greater will be its footprint. A secure API supports broader outreach and increases consumers' confidence. A secure API's consumers can fully leverage that API confidence about their data confidentiality and privacy.
In the previous few chapters, you looked at methods of building APIs using various features and functions available within API Connect (APIC). Chapter 4, API Creation, helped you understand and explore multiple API building constructs, and in ...
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