Why Is An API Important?
APIs help reduce the need for traditional strategies that rely heavily on employee interaction, paperwork, and other expensive measures to run your business. Instead, they replace them with accurate, timely, and secure actions, improved communication, added security, and adherence to compliance standards.
With APIs, developers can also set up authentication mechanisms to verify the identity of users before allowing access to any data (password protection). Finally, APIs can be used to detect and prevent malicious attacks on data. By monitoring data access patterns, APIs can detect suspicious activity and alert the system administrator to take the necessary steps to protect the data.