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API Security for White Hat Hackers

You're reading from   API Security for White Hat Hackers Uncover offensive defense strategies and get up to speed with secure API implementation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560802
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding API Security Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to API Architecture and Security 3. Chapter 2: The Evolving API Threat Landscape and Security Considerations 4. Chapter 3: OWASP API Security Top 10 Explained 5. Part 2: Offensive API Hacking
6. Chapter 4: API Attack Strategies and Tactics 7. Chapter 5: Exploiting API Vulnerabilities 8. Chapter 6: Bypassing API Authentication and Authorization Controls 9. Chapter 7: Attacking API Input Validation and Encryption Techniques 10. Part 3: Advanced Techniques for API Security Testing and Exploitation
11. Chapter 8: API Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing 12. Chapter 9: Advanced API Testing: Approaches, Tools, and Frameworks 13. Chapter 10: Using Evasion Techniques 14. Part 4: API Security for Technical Management Professionals
15. Chapter 11: Best Practices for Secure API Design and Implementation 16. Chapter 12: Challenges and Considerations for API Security in Large Enterprises 17. Chapter 13: Implementing Effective API Governance and Risk Management Initiatives 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

OWASP API Security Top 10 Explained

APIs have become one of the most important parts of the infrastructure of modern organizations. They connect our digital applications, spur business innovation, and are a key part of meeting the high demands of today’s picky customers. Because they are so common and important, they have brought in an era in which seamless interaction and instant access to data are the norm.

But there is a darker side to this growth in the use of APIs. With their always-watchful eyes, cybercriminals have caught on to the weaknesses of APIs and marked them as valuable targets. Gartner predicted that hackers would change their focus, saying, “By 2022, API abuses will go from being rare nuisances to being the main way that large data breaches happen in enterprise web applications.” Their prediction was eerily true.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), a community that works to improve software security, put out its first API Security...

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