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Pentesting APIs

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837633166

Length 290 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Maurício Harley

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

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Setting Up the Penetration Testing Environment

Continuing with the first part of our book, this is one of the most practical chapters. It’s obviously impossible to conduct a high quality pentest without the necessary toolbelt. We discuss some possibilities here along with some utilities that will help you on your daily API pentesting life. You will find instructions to install all major tools I applied to build the exercises, which are the same tools you will use in real API intrusion tests. There are also a couple of decisions that you need to make regarding the operating system and the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to adopt. You can save some considerable time by cloning the book’s repository. I shared all codes that are present in the following chapters, together with some tools.

In this chapter we’re going to cover the following main topics:

Selecting tools and frameworks
Building a testing lab
Configuring testing environments

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Authors (1)

Maurício Harley

Maurício Harley

Maurício Harley holds an MSc in cybersecurity, a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, and a technologist degree in telematics. He's CISSP and double CCIE certified. He has written offensive security articles for some magazines. He has 30 years of combined experience, in areas such as application security and forensic analysis. He has delivered security talks at Brazilian, European, and Latin American events, such as RootDay, RootSec, AWS LATAM Security Talks, AWS Security Workshops, EMEA AeroSpace Smart Factory, and OWASP LATAM@Home. He has participated in various security projects in Latin America and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), delivering professional services in Angola, Austria, Bahrain, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

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