🔑 API Key Management: Best Practices for Protecting Your APIs API keys are essential authentication credentials that provide authorized access to APIs, acting as unique identifiers for applications or users. 🛡 Safeguarding API keys is paramount as they grant access to sensitive data and functionalities. ChangeNOW's robust API key management system ensures secure storage and encryption, minimizing the risk of unauthorized access. To ensure a strong security framework for APIs, it is crucial to generate unique, random, and non-guessable API keys that help identify the associated application or user. 💻 👨‍💻 To enhance security, API keys are securely stored within user accounts, ensuring exclusive access and an extra layer of protection against vulnerabilities associated with storing keys in plain text. ChangeNOW simplifies the identification of API keys by adding a distinguishing prefix to each key. This feature enables users to quickly locate and manage their API keys in the console, ensuring a seamless experience with easy key identification. 📖 Unlock comprehensive insights on API key management in the full article.