How to Protect API Specification from Unauthorized Users with Apidog

Learn how Apidog empowers you to protect API specification from unauthorized users. Explore advanced API documentation security, access controls, and sharing options for secure API development.

Oliver Kingsley

Oliver Kingsley

17 June 2025

How to Protect API Specification from Unauthorized Users with Apidog

In the rapidly evolving world of API development, safeguarding your API documentation is not just a best practice—it’s a necessity.

Delve into how Apidog’s advanced features empower you to protect API specification from unauthorized users, ensuring your confidential data remains secure while enabling seamless collaboration.

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Why API Specification Security Matters: Protect API Specification from Unauthorized Users

In the digital age, API documentation serves as the blueprint for your business logic, data flows, and integrations. Exposing it to the wrong audience can lead to data breaches, intellectual property theft, or compliance violations. For organizations collaborating with multiple partners, the challenge is twofold:

Common pain points include:

Apidog addresses these pain points with a suite of robust security features designed to protect API specifications from unauthorized users, while maintaining the agility and collaboration modern teams demand.

Apidog’s Multi-Layered Security: How to Secure API Documentation and Restrict Access

Granular Visibility Controls: Secure API Specification

docs sites visibility setting

Apidog empowers you to decide exactly who can see your API documentation. When publishing docs, you can choose from several visibility settings:

Apidog Visibility Options:

Visibility Option Description Best For
Public Open to all internet users Public APIs, open source
Password Protected Access via password only Temporary sharing, small teams
IP Allowlist Only specified IPs can access Internal, on-premise teams
Email Allowlist Only approved emails (with verification) can access Enterprise, NDA partners
Custom Login (JWT) Integrate with your own SSO/auth system Large organizations, custom workflows

Dive Deeper: Protect API Specification from Unauthorized Users with Custom Login

Indulge in enterprise-grade security by integrating your own authentication system. Apidog supports JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication, allowing you to:

custom login page to secure API specifications

How it works:

  1. User visits your Apidog docs site
  2. They’re redirected to your login page
  3. After successful login, your backend issues a JWT
  4. User is redirected back to Apidog with the token
  5. Apidog validates the token and grants access
the working process of using custom login page to protect api specifications

Benefits:

Safe Sharing: Secure API Specification While Collaborating

Apidog understands that collaboration is key, but so is security. You can easily set up passwords for the shared docs. People with the share link must enter the correct password to access the documentation:

Pro Tip:
Always review your visibility or security settings before sharing and publishing. Apidog makes it easy to audit and adjust access controls as your project evolves.

Advanced Security Controls: Customize API Documentation

Apidog’s advanced settings let you fine-tune what information is visible and what actions are allowed:

Learn more about what you can do to protect your API specification.

Best Practices: How to Protect API Specification from Unauthorized Users

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Conclusion: Secure API Specification with Apidog

In the rapidly changing landscape of API development, protecting your API specification from unauthorized users is non-negotiable. Apidog delivers a comprehensive, flexible, and enterprise-ready solution for API documentation security. Whether you’re a startup sharing docs with a handful of partners or a global enterprise managing complex access controls, Apidog’s features adapt to your needs.

Key Takeaways:

Ready to protect your API specification from unauthorized users?
Delve into Apidog’s security features and indulge in peace of mind—your API documentation is safe, accessible, and always under your control.

Want to see Apidog in action?
Try Apidog for Free and experience the future of secure API development.

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