API Security with the Apigee API Platform
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API Security with the Apigee API Platform
This course is part of Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Specialization
Instructor: Google Cloud Training
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What you'll learn
Discuss the role of user authentication and authorization and the importance of API security.
Identify Apigee features used to secure APIs.
Describe the use cases and flows for the OAuth 2 grant types.
Build secure APIs with the Apigee API Platform.
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There are 3 modules in this course
In this course, you learn how to secure your APIs. You explore the security concerns you will encounter for your APIs. You learn about OAuth, the primary authorization method for REST APIs. You will learn about JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and federated security. You also learn about securing against malicious requests, safely sending requests across a public network, and how to secure your data for users of Apigee.
Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform. This is the second course of the Developing APIs with the Apigee API Platform series. After completing this course, enroll in the API Development with the Apigee API Platform course.
This module introduces API security concerns, OAuth, JSON Web Tokens, federated security, and OpenID Connect.
What's included
21 videos1 assignment1 app item1 plugin
21 videos•Total 88 minutes
- Course introduction•2 minutes
- Authentication, authorization, and OAuth: Introduction•1 minute
- API security concerns (1)•5 minutes
- API security concerns (2)•5 minutes
- Identity, authentication, and authorization•3 minutes
- OAuth introduction (1)•7 minutes
- OAuth introduction (2)•5 minutes
- OAuth introduction (3)•4 minutes
- OAuth client credentials grant (1)•4 minutes
- OAuth client credentials grant (2)•5 minutes
- OAuth password grant (1)•2 minutes
- OAuth password grant (2)•5 minutes
- OAuth authorization code grant (1)•6 minutes
- OAuth authorization code grant (2)•8 minutes
- OAuth authorization code grant (3)•7 minutes
- OAuth authorization code grant (4)•3 minutes
- OAuth wrap-up•7 minutes
- Lab intro: Using OAuth Client Credentials Grant Type•0 minutes
- JWT, JWS, and OpenID Connect (1)•5 minutes
- JWT, JWS, and OpenID Connect (2)•5 minutes
- Authentication, authorization, and OAuth: Review•0 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
- Authentication, authorization, and OAuth: Quiz•10 minutes
1 app item•Total 90 minutes
- Lab: Using OAuth Client Credentials Grant Type•90 minutes
1 plugin•Total 15 minutes
- Accessing and completing labs•15 minutes
This module introduces content-based attacks, transport security, and protection against unauthorized access
What's included
13 videos1 assignment4 app items
13 videos•Total 35 minutes
- Content, transport, and platform security: Introduction•1 minute
- Protecting against content-based attacks (1)•4 minutes
- Protecting Against Content-Based Attacks (2)•5 minutes
- Lab intro: JSON Threat Protection•0 minutes
- Lab intro: Regex Threat Protection•0 minutes
- Transport security (1)•6 minutes
- Transport security (2)•4 minutes
- Apigee platform security (1)•7 minutes
- Apigee platform security (2)•6 minutes
- Lab intro: Internal Threat Protection•0 minutes
- Lab intro: Data Masking•0 minutes
- Content, transport, and platform security: Review•0 minutes
- Course review•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
- Content, transport, and platform security: Quiz•10 minutes
4 app items•Total 360 minutes
- Lab: JSON Threat Protection•90 minutes
- Lab: Internal Threat Protection•90 minutes
- Lab: Regex Threat Protection•90 minutes
- Lab: Data Masking•90 minutes
PDF links to all modules
What's included
1 reading
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Course resources•10 minutes
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Reviewed on Apr 20, 2020
Excellent course, covers all the security points necessary to develop secure and reliable APIs. More than meets expectations. I recommend it.
Reviewed on Sep 1, 2020
It was a great course, however there were some issues in the labs due to an upgrade in the specialization, however the instructor was so helpful and always give a solution to the problems.
Reviewed on Jun 8, 2021
Excellent startup content for people started working on Apigee API Platform and setting up some of the security practices in Pipeline
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