Configuring API security by using the API Designer
You configure security for an API by creating one or more security definitions that specify various aspects of security configuration. You then select which definitions you want to apply to your API, and to the operations in your API.
About this task
By default, the security definitions that you apply to your API are also applied to the operations in the API, but for each API operation you can override the default setting by specifying the types of security definition that you want the operation to inherit from the containing API.
Procedure
You configure API security by completing the following steps: