# Cognite Security categories API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-security-categories-api/  
**Provider:** Cognite — https://apis.io/providers/cognite/  
**Base URL:** https://api.cognitedata.com  
**Documentation:** https://api-docs.cognite.com/

Cognite Security categories API is one of 90 APIs that [Cognite](https://apis.io/providers/cognite/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Security categories. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

Manage security categories for a specific project. Security categories can be used to restrict access to a resource. Applying a security category to a resource means that only principals (users or service accounts) that also have this security category can access the resource. To learn more about security categories please read [this page](https://developer.cognite.com/dev/guides/iam/authorization.html#security-categories).

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cognite/refs/heads/main/openapi/cognite-security-categories-api-openapi.yml

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- [Cognite 3D Models API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-3d-models-api/)
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- [Cognite Connections API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-connections-api/)
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- [Cognite Data models API](https://apis.io/apis/cognite/cognite-data-models-api/)
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## Tags

Security categories

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