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:

  1. Create one or more security definitions.
  2. Apply one or more of those security definitions to the API.
  3. Optional: Specify the security definitions that you want each API operation to inherit.

    For details of configuring API security, see the following subtopics: