Require that every API is designed to resist abuse and misuse, so I want throttling, quotas, anomaly detection, bot and scraping defenses, and sensible request limits treated as part of the contract rather than something we react to after an incident. I push on this because a public API is a standing invitation, and not everyone who shows up has good intentions, so you have to assume some traffic will try to overwhelm, enumerate, or extract more than you intended to give. Prevention is dramatically cheaper than cleanup once your data has been scraped or your service has been knocked over. Bake these protections in at design time, tune them against real traffic, and enforce them at the gateway so abuse is expensive for the attacker and cheap for you to shrug off.
Abuse Prevention (Security)
Strategies
APIs Are Protected from Abuse and Misuse
All APIs must have abuse prevention mechanisms beyond basic rate limiting, including throttling, quotas, circuit breakers, and bot detection, ensuring the stability and availability of APIs for leg...
Experiences
Security
API security is a top priority for any enterprise, with even higher standards for externally available APIs. However, security doesn’t end with the APIs an enterprise produces—it also applies to co...
Trust
Establish trust with API consumers will evolve and build over time, and is something that can be lost in a very short period of time. Trust will depend on other experiences like quality and reliabi...
Reliability
If an API isn’t reliable, consumers will eventually look for alternatives. Reliability starts with the platform and infrastructure where the API is deployed, but it also depends heavily on the pace...
Lifecycle
security Security Production
Security runs through every stop on this lifecycle, but it also deserves its own attention. OWASP alignment, vulnerability scanning, and defense in depth protect both the provider and the consumer....
balance Governance Production
Governance is how everything on this lifecycle stays aligned as an operation scales. Policies, rules, and standards applied consistently across teams are what keep APIs coherent without slowing eve...
