Ideogram Security Basics

Overview

Secure your Ideogram API integration. Ideogram uses a single Api-Key header for authentication -- there are no OAuth scopes, roles, or fine-grained permissions. Security focuses on key management, environment isolation, prompt sanitization, and preventing key exposure.

Prerequisites

• Ideogram API key from dashboard
• Understanding of environment variables
• .gitignore configured for secrets

Instructions

Step 1: Secure Key Storage

# .env (NEVER commit)
IDEOGRAM_API_KEY=your-key-here

# .gitignore -- add these lines
.env
.env.local