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title: Security & best practices
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summary: A guide to keeping your GraphQL API secure and accessible
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# Security and best practices

In this section we'll cover several options you have for keeping your GraphQL API secure and compliant
with best practices. Some of these tools require configuration, while others come pre-installed.

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