API stands for Application Programming Interface that allows different applications to communicate with each other. For example, you want to book a flight. You visit a travel agent’s website and fill in your flight requirements. The travel portal in turn sends requests to airline websites to retrieve the information that you requested. All this happens through APIs. Since API is a medium of communication it is also easily accessible to hackers. Thus, API security is very important to the overall safety of a website. What is API security? An API…