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
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1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
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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
- Threat Modeling
- Cloud Security
- Flask (Web Framework)
- Security Controls
- Python Programming
- Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Restful API
- Identity and Access Management
- OAuth
- Authorization (Computing)
- Data Security
- Prometheus (Software)
- Authentications
- API Design
- System Monitoring
- Application Security
- Grafana
- Encryption
- API Gateway
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September 2025
Taught in English
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There are 3 modules in this course
This module establishes a solid foundation in protecting APIs against modern threats. You’ll explore core authentication and authorization techniques, examine common attack vectors, and learn how to apply encryption and compliance standards. Through a mix of theory and demos, you will gain the practical skills needed to secure APIs from design to deployment.
What's included
21 videos7 readings5 assignments1 discussion prompt1 plugin
This module focuses on the operational side of APIs—managing, observing, and scaling them effectively. You’ll work with API gateways for traffic routing and policy enforcement, implement monitoring and analytics to track key metrics, and understand how to productize APIs through developer portals and monetization strategies.
What's included
15 videos6 readings4 assignments
The closing module recaps the key lessons from the course and reinforces best practices for securing and managing APIs. You’ll review the essential concepts in a brief summary video and complete a graded knowledge check to validate your understanding and readiness to apply these skills in real-world API projects.
What's included
1 video1 reading2 assignments1 discussion prompt1 plugin
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. The course includes multiple demos where you will implement authentication, configure gateways, set up monitoring, and test real APIs in a guided environment.
Basic familiarity with web technologies like HTML, CSS, or JavaScript is helpful but not essential. The course starts with fundamentals and explains each concept clearly.
Yes. You will gain practical skills in designing, securing, and testing APIs using real-world scenarios and guided demonstrations.
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