Blog Security REST API Security Best Practices Abigail Ojeda is a Product Marketing Manager at Akamai. What is a REST API? \r\n The software architectural style of representational state transfer (REST) dates back to a 2000 doctoral dissertation by computer scientist Roy Fielding. In the decades since then, REST APIs, sometimes referred to as RESTful APIs, have evolved to become a very popular API architecture model for web and mobile applications, as well as business-to-business applications and organizations’ internal systems. \r\n While other API approaches (such as SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC) are also used in many implementations, REST APIs are the most widely used, mostly because of their ease of implementation. A REST API design is very easy for modern front-end frameworks to consume, making it a popular choice for web applications, mobile applications, and many internal and business-to-business API implementations. \r\n"}}"> What is a REST API?…