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Solution Architecture with .NET

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075626
Pages 238 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jamil Hallal Jamil Hallal
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding the Responsibilities of a Solution Architect
2. Chapter 1: Principles of the Software Development Life Cycle 3. Chapter 2: Team Roles and Responsibilities 4. Chapter 3: What Makes an Effective Solution Architect? 5. Section 2: Designing a Solution Architecture
6. Chapter 4: Designing a Solution Architecture 7. Chapter 5: Exploring Architecture Design Patterns 8. Chapter 6: Architecture Considerations 9. Chapter 7: Securing ASP.NET Web Applications 10. Chapter 8: Testing in Solution Architecture 11. Section 3: Architecting Modern Web Solutions with DevOps Solutions
12. Chapter 9: Architecting Modern Web Solutions with ASP.NET Core and Azure 13. Chapter 10: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Web API security recommendations

With an increasing demand to build modern web and mobile apps, web APIs have become essential to empower these applications, with an easy way to communicate with the data access layer. This should be accompanied by proper security measures to protect web APIs. In addition to the security recommendations we discussed in the previous section, here are some essential tips to secure your web API:

  • Consider using the latest Transport Layer Security (TLS) version to encrypt communication between the app and the server.
  • Authenticate users who are trying to consume the RESTful API.
  • Act like a stalker by enabling audit logs, tracing, and logging to monitoring all events.
  • Consider protecting your API by applying throttling and quotas, such as limiting the number of messages per a specific time. This is important to control the bandwidth of the server according to the available capacity.
  • Always validate the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON...
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