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# API Security is Critical

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Description: APImetrics one\-pager on API security: find sensitive data exposure, manage conformance to secure specifications, and monitor production for API drift\.

## Summary
API Security is Critical\. Tools that work across the development lifecycle, to monitor APIs for security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities from CI/CD into production\.\. APImetrics one\-pager on API security: find sensitive data exposure, manage conformance to secure specifications, and monitor production for API drift\.

## Page sections

### Tools that work across the development lifecycle, to monitor APIs for security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities from CI/CD into production\.
Category: Product overview
Security problems can appear at any stage of the API lifecycle, from pre\-production through CI/CD into production\. This one\-pager explains how APImetrics monitors APIs across that lifecycle\. Read the full text on this page, or complete the form to receive the PDF\.

- How to find and monitor sensitive data exposure over your APIs
- How to manage conformance to your secure specifications
- How to monitor production environments to guard against API drift
- How OAuth, JWT signing and mTLS are checked on live monitoring

## Key facts
- Security problems can appear at any stage of the API lifecycle, from pre\-production through CI/CD into production\. This one\-pager explains how APImetrics monitors APIs across that lifecycle\.
- Read the full text on this page, or complete the form to receive the PDF\.
- How to find and monitor sensitive data exposure over your APIs
- How to manage conformance to your secure specifications
- How to monitor production environments to guard against API drift
- How OAuth, JWT signing and mTLS are checked on live monitoring

## Primary entities
- APIContext
- Product overview
- API Security is Critical
- API monitoring
- API resilience

## Audience
- technology leaders
- API teams
- platform teams
- SRE teams

## Primary links
- [Download the one\-pager](/resources/api-security-is-critical)