API Security Best Practices: Enable Good Governance

API governance is a crucial component of advanced API management programs that ensures standardization, reliability, and security across the design and deployment processes. It involves defining and implementing standards, rules, and processes to manage APIs effectively. Good API governance benefits both product users and developers by reducing downtime and error codes, increasing user trust, and building a positive reputation for your product. API security best practices in governance include establishing policies and procedures, providing assistance to teams, monitoring the results, automating API validation, creating a policy for versioning, tracking various elements of an API, and establishing style guidelines. These practices help maintain API consistency, allow components to be reused, ensure APIs are proactively built to fulfill particular goals and add value to the company, and make informed decisions about designing, deploying, and consuming APIs.