By Giulio Astori
With cyber threats becoming more sophisticated, ensuring the security of your business-critical APIs is non-negotiable.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud introduces an efficient solution with its Defender for APIs feature, designed to provide comprehensive lifecycle protection, detection, and response coverage for your APIs. Defender for APIs is designed to help you protect your APIs from OWASP top API risks and empower you with the visibility needed to enhance your API security posture. With the ability to detect real-time threats swiftly, you're always a step ahead in responding to API security threats and triage.
The Importance of Selecting the Right Plan
To have comprehensive coverage of your APIs, It is crucial to onboard your APIM APIs into Defender for APIs plan by selecting the right entitlement and completing the second step of onboarding by actioning the onboarding recommendation, detailed here.
With five distinct pricing plans, each catering to varying entitlement limits and monthly fees, selecting the right plan for your Subscription(s) is vital. These plans are billed at the subscription level based on the total API traffic monitored monthly, ensuring that you're only billed for what you use, with a reset at the start of each billing cycle.
Estimating Your API Traffic for Optimal Pricing
Determining the most suitable plan requires an understanding of your historical Azure API Management (APIM) traffic usage.
To avoid such overages, accurately estimating your monthly API traffic is key.
Here's how to estimate your monthly API traffic within Azure API Management:
- Navigate to the Azure API Management portal and access Metrics under the Monitoring menu.
- Set the time range to the last 30 days and configure the following parameters:
- Scope: Azure API Management Service Name
- Metric Namespace: API Management service standard metrics
- Metric: Requests
- Aggregation: Sum
Read the full post here: Microsoft Defender for API Security - Estimate Your Plan Cost Easily
