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Pentesting APIs

You're reading from   Pentesting APIs A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837633166
Length 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maurício Harley Maurício Harley
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to API Security
2. Chapter 1: Understanding APIs and their Security Landscape FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Penetration Testing Environment 4. Part 2: API Information Gathering and AuthN/AuthZ Testing
5. Chapter 3: API Reconnaissance and Information Gathering 6. Chapter 4: Authentication and Authorization Testing 7. Part 3: API Basic Attacks
8. Chapter 5: Injection Attacks and Validation Testing 9. Chapter 6: Error Handling and Exception Testing 10. Chapter 7: Denial of Service and Rate-Limiting Testing 11. Part 4: API Advanced Topics
12. Chapter 8: Data Exposure and Sensitive Information Leakage 13. Chapter 9: API Abuse and Business Logic Testing 14. Part 5: API Security Best Practices
15. Chapter 10: Secure Coding Practices for APIs 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Leveraging OSINT

OSINT is a market that has substantially grown in the last few years and has a continuous tendency to keep growing. According to a publicly available report, in 2022 the market size was 4.2 billion USD. It’s expected to reach 7.32 billion USD in 2031, which represents a 73.43% increase with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of about 6.31% in a nine-year period. That’s something that can’t go unnoticed. This market is comprised mostly of companies that build software and/or training to explore the corresponding research techniques.

If you have never heard about OSINT, I will summarize it for you. OSINT comprises a series of techniques for collecting and analyzing information that is publicly available. OSINT can be used to gather information about APIs in a variety of ways. For example, you can use OSINT to do the following:

  • Find information about APIs that are not documented by the provider.
  • Identify new API endpoints that have...
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