Introducing Advanced API Security for Apigee’s Pay-As-You-Go Users

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Hello Apigee Community!

We are thrilled to announce that Apigee's Advanced API Security is now available to access using Pay-as-you-Go pricing! Previously available only to our subscription customers, this change now brings Advanced API Security capabilities within reach for all of our customers.

Why Advanced API Security for Pay-as-you-go users?

APIs quickly became a favorite target for threat actors. Which is why proactively identifying API security threats is top of mind for 60% of IT leaders according to Google Cloud’s 2022 API Security Research Report. This is where Advanced API Security can help. 

Extending Advanced API Security to Pay-as-you-go users underscores our commitment to providing access to comprehensive security capabilities regardless of your pricing plan. Now, every user, from startups to enterprises, can benefit from Advanced API Security. 

Why should you use Advanced API security?

Advanced API security offers a range of benefits to transform your development experience:

1. Risk Assessment Automatic analysis and recommendation for API security configurations, helps ensure that all your API proxy configurations adhere to security standards and best practices for consistent security.
2. Abuse and Bot detection visibility Powered by Google's Machine Learning algorithms, Advanced API Security detects suspicious traffic and abuse
3. Actions are automated operations, triggered in response to abuse or anomaly detection, based on your conditions.
4. Alerts are notifications that inform you about security score changes, abuse or anomaly detection as soon as they are detected.

How can you get started?

Enable Advanced API Security on the add-on page to start using the capabilities with Pay-as-you-go pricing. Please note that enabling analytics add-on capability is a prerequisite to use Advanced API Security and it is only available for us in Intermediate or Comprehensive deployment environments

To learn more about Advanced API security, visit our documentation 

We would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions for improvement. Please feel free to share your experience with us.

Happy development!