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REST API Security Best Practices

Abigail Ojeda is a Product Marketing Manager at Akamai.

What is a REST API?

\r\n The software architectural style of representational state transfer (REST) dates back to a 2000 doctoral dissertation by computer scientist Roy Fielding. In the decades since then, REST APIs, sometimes referred to as RESTful APIs, have evolved to become a very popular API architecture model for web and mobile applications, as well as business-to-business applications and organizations’ internal systems.

\r\n While other API approaches (such as SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC) are also used in many implementations, REST APIs are the most widely used, mostly because of their ease of implementation.…