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.


您将学到什么
Implement secure authentication, authorization, and encryption techniques to protect APIs from common threats.
Identify and prevent injection, DoS, and man-in-the-middle attacks while ensuring adherence to security standards.
Configure API gateways, monitor usage and key performance metrics, and build analytics dashboards to improve adoption and reliability.
Turn APIs into scalable products by setting up developer portals, enabling monetization, and governing API ecosystems effectively.
您将获得的技能
- OAuth
- Security Controls
- Encryption
- Flask (Web Framework)
- API Design
- Identity and Access Management
- Python Programming
- Restful API
- Data Security
- Grafana
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
- Threat Modeling
- Application Security
- Authentications
- API Gateway
- Authorization (Computing)
- Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
- Cloud API
- Prometheus (Software)
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该课程共有3个模块
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.
涵盖的内容
21个视频7篇阅读材料5个作业1个讨论话题1个插件
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.
涵盖的内容
15个视频6篇阅读材料4个作业
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.
涵盖的内容
1个视频1篇阅读材料2个作业1个讨论话题1个插件
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常见问题
Yes. The course includes multiple demos where you will implement authentication, configure gateways, set up monitoring, and test real APIs in a guided environment.
Basic familiarity with web technologies like HTML, CSS, or JavaScript is helpful but not essential. The course starts with fundamentals and explains each concept clearly.
Yes. You will gain practical skills in designing, securing, and testing APIs using real-world scenarios and guided demonstrations.
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