13 API Security Best Practices To Protect Your Business
Search App Architecture, Thursday, March 20th, 2025
APIs are the backbone of most modern applications, and companies must build in API security from the start. Follow these guidelines to design, deploy and protect your APIs.
An application programming interface enables software applications to interact with each other by controlling how requests are made and handled. Thanks to the rise of cloud computing and a shift from monolithic applications to microservices, application programming interfaces are a pivotal element in today's digital world.
There are likely millions of public APIs in use by developers and organizations around the globe. Thousands upon thousands of public APIs are available in online collections and repositories such as GitHub, publicapis.io and Postman.