How to protect your APIs against these 6 security threats

Like web applications, APIs face a set of unique vulnerabilities and threats. In this video, we review the six main security threats that APIs face and how you can best protect your APIs from these malicious attacks. From protecting you against injection threats to spam, this video will have you covered. Watch to learn how you can safeguard your APIs!

Chapters:

0:19 - Intro
0:42 - 6 API security threats to protect against
0:55 - Basic software bugs
1:50 - Injection attack threats
1:24 - Service availability threats
2:56 - User identity threats
3:56 - Insider threats
4:44 - Spam and abuse
5:37 - Resources

product: Apigee API Management Platform; fullname: Jenny Brown;

[tionasilue]

Thank you very much for these security tips ! 👌

[balkrishnatalele]

Excellent content!! More episodes with deep dives and sort of helloworld demos on the GCP platform would be extremely beneficial.

[softwareengineer]

I thought you can do rate limiting natively in gcp. For example by simply setting the rate limit to 3 requests per second.

[ecsyntric]

do all googlers homes looks ridiculously similar or is this a studio?

[guillaumeblaquiere]

Great content!! More episode with deep dive and demo could be awesome!

[ddelv]

This isn't a how to video, it's a commercial for a series of products.

[digitalmedia]

Looks like all theory but no real insights about how to do it.
For eg: How do you avoid false traffic generated against an API