RESTful APIs adhere to REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture constraints. Following these architecture constraints enables APIs to offer scalability, speed, and data versatility. An API of this kind accesses data by using HTTP requests and is the most common type of API used in modern applications today.

Apigee is Google Cloud’s fully managed API management solution. Trusted by enterprises across the globe, Apigee is developer-friendly and provides comprehensive capabilities to support diverse API architectural styles, deployment environments, and use cases. Apigee also provides flexible pricing options for every business to get started and become successful on the platform.

Apigee currently supports REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC, or OpenAPI protocols.

Companies worldwide rely on application programming interfaces, or APIs, to facilitate digital experiences and unleash the potential energy of their own data and processes. But the proliferation and importance of APIs comes with a risk. As a gateway to a wealth of information and systems, APIs have become a favorite target for hackers. Due to the prevalence of such attacks, there is a need for a proactive approach to secure APIs.

Apigee helps organizations stay ahead of security threats by offering protection in three layers:

1. Robust policies that protect every API transaction from unauthorized users.

2. Advanced API security provides automated controls to identify API misconfigurations, malicious bot attacks, and anomalous traffic patterns without overhead and alert fatigue. Web application and API security based on the same technology used by Google to protect its public-facing services against web application vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks, fraudulent bot activity, and API-targeted threats. Google Cloud WAAP combines three solutions (Apigee, Cloud Armor, and reCAPTCHA Enterprise) to provide comprehensive protection against threats and fraud.