In this course, you learn how to secure your APIs. You explore the security concerns you will encounter for your APIs. You learn about OAuth, the primary authorization method for REST APIs. You will learn about JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and federated security. You also learn about securing against malicious requests, safely sending requests across a public network, and how to secure your data for users of Apigee.
This course is part of the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Specialization
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What you will learn
Describe Apigee terminology and organizational model based on Apigee product capabilities.
Interact with Apigee API Platform.
Explore and put into practice API design, development and management concepts.
Identify capabilities available to secure, scale, and manage APIs and API products.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Module 0: Introduction
Welcome to API Security! This is the second course in the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform series.
Module 1: Authentication, Authorization, and OAuth
This module introduces API security concerns, OAuth, JSON Web Tokens, SAML and OpenID Connect.
Module 2: Content, Transport, and Platform Security
This module introduces content-based attacks, transport security, and protection against unauthorized access
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TOP REVIEWS FROM API SECURITY ON GOOGLE CLOUD'S APIGEE API PLATFORM
Great knowledge to acquired. An absolute recommendation to my peers
Helped me understand all possible types of security mechanisms that can be applied to a API Proxy developed in Apigee
Great course and exercises. Need to improve Qwicklabs as some Labs have sometimes problems to work properly.
Course is good. We would love to see details on JWT integration
About the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Specialization
This three-course specialization introduces learners to Apigee, Google Cloud's full-lifecycle API management platform. Using a combination of presentations, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will explore the full API lifecycle, and learn how to design, secure, and publish APIs using the Apigee API Platform. You will use labs to build APIs that solve real-world scenarios.

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