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Defending APIs

You're reading from   Defending APIs Uncover advanced defense techniques to craft secure application programming interfaces

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617120
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Colin Domoney Colin Domoney
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Foundations of API Security
2. Chapter 1: What Is API Security? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding APIs 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Common API Vulnerabilities 5. Chapter 4: Investigating Recent Breaches 6. Part 2: Attacking APIs
7. Chapter 5: Foundations of Attacking APIs 8. Chapter 6: Discovering APIs 9. Chapter 7: Attacking APIs 10. Part 3: Defending APIs
11. Chapter 8: Shift-Left for API Security 12. Chapter 9: Defending against Common Vulnerabilities 13. Chapter 10: Securing Your Frameworks and Languages 14. Chapter 11: Shield Right for APIs with Runtime Protection 15. Chapter 12: Securing Microservices 16. Chapter 13: Implementing an API Security Strategy 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding APIs

With our understanding of the role APIs play and the security challenges associated with them, let’s take a deeper look at how APIs work in much more detail. By the conclusion of this chapter, you will have a full understanding of how APIs work, starting with the transport protocol and the choice of APIs available to developers. The two central tenets of API security are authentication and authorization—we will cover these in detail to understand their pivotal role. Finally, you’ll understand how keys and tokens are used in ensuring the security and integrity of APIs and the identity of API clients.

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

  • The fundamentals of HTTP
  • The different types of APIs that are currently in use
  • Authentication best practices and methods
  • Authorization best practices and methods
  • Using tokens and keys
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