Protecting and Managing APIs

Overview

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. Moving beyond security, you’ll master API management by setting up gateways, implementing monitoring and analytics, and transforming APIs into scalable products. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Explain core API security concepts, threats, and best practices • Implement secure authentication and authorization methods including OAuth 2.0 and JWT • Protect APIs against common attacks such as injection and DoS • Encrypt sensitive data and ensure compliance with security standards • Configure and manage API gateways for routing and traffic control • Monitor API performance, track key metrics, and set up analytics dashboards • Apply strategies for API productization, monetization, and developer portal creation This course is ideal for software developers, DevOps engineers, Full Stack developers, and IT professionals who want to strengthen their skills in API security, management, and monitoring. A basic understanding of web services and RESTful APIs is recommended, but no prior experience with advanced security or API management tools is required. Join us to learn how to safeguard APIs against evolving threats, implement robust access controls, and build a scalable API ecosystem that supports modern application demands.

Syllabus

API Security Fundamentals

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.

API Management and Monitoring

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.

Course Wrap-Up and Assessment

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.