Security News > 2020 > April > Understanding the basics of API security

Researching the wide range of API security alternatives can be confusing - even to seasoned experts.

The target reader includes software developers who depend on and use APIs every day, as well as technical managers who might have responsibility for API security in their organization.

We try to describe the API security concepts in a manner accessible to each type of reader.

Such technical decision became the genesis of what we now refer to as an application programming interface or more commonly - API. Recognize that an API provides a standard interface through which two software programs, also referred to commonly as processes, can communicate, share messages, or managed shared memory.

More specifically, an API is an interface which makes software services available to workloads or applications for bidirectional communication and message sharing.

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