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.
API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
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API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
This course is part of Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Specialization
Instructor: Google Cloud Training
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No prior experience required
8 hours to complete
3 weeks at 2 hours a week
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What you'll learn
Discuss the role of user authentication and authorization and the importance of API security.
Identify capabilities available to secure, scale, and manage APIs and API products.
Explore and put into practice API design, development and management concepts.
Interact with the Apigee API Platform.
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There are 3 modules in this course
Welcome to API Security! This is the second course in the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform series.
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2 videos
This module introduces API security concerns, OAuth, JSON Web Tokens, SAML and OpenID Connect.
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15 videos2 readings1 assignment1 app item
This module introduces content-based attacks, transport security, and protection against unauthorized access
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13 videos1 reading1 assignment4 app items
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