This course equips you with the essential skills to secure, manage, and monitor modern APIs, ensuring reliability and compliance in today’s interconnected applications. You’ll explore API security fundamentals, learn industry-standard authentication and authorization techniques, implement encryption, and defend against common threats.

Protecting and Managing APIs

Protecting and Managing APIs
This course is part of API Development and Architecture Specialization

Instructor: Edureka
What you'll learn
Implement secure authentication, authorization, and encryption techniques to protect APIs from common threats.
Identify and prevent injection, DoS, and man-in-the-middle attacks while ensuring adherence to security standards.
Configure API gateways, monitor usage and key performance metrics, and build analytics dashboards to improve adoption and reliability.
Turn APIs into scalable products by setting up developer portals, enabling monetization, and governing API ecosystems effectively.
Skills you'll gain
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This course is part of the API Development and Architecture Specialization
When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.
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