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Securing REST API for Web Applications and Services

Secure your win in the REST API interview. The gist of years of experience on how to effectively secure your REST APIs and prevent attacks is in this course.

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Digital threats emerge every day around the world. This course will help you build REST APIs with minimal vulnerabilities. This course diligently crafts the security design around the REST API and gears you up to a Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC). You’ll learn REST security from start to finish. This includes client and server rendering, the architectural constraints of REST, SSL/TLS/X.509 certificates, choosing the right TLS protocol, version, ciphers, forward secrecy, and the seven tenets of Zero Trust. You’ll also learn how and where to position access control in monolithic and microservices. You’ll also learn to make your application stateless using JWT, and learn the nuances of JWT security, how to put input validation to good use, choosing the right HTTP method to use, and the best practices for various content types. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to build your next REST API and be confident in its security as measured by the common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS3.1).

Digital threats emerge every day around the world. This course will help you build REST APIs with minimal vulnerabilities. This...Show More

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Learn to Secure REST APIs and make a secure software development lifecycle

Get a thorough understanding of SSL/TLS/X.509 Certificates if they are all same or different

Learn how to score vulnerabilities

Learn the differences between client and server Rendering

Learn zero trust and the seven tenets of zero Trust

Learn to choose the right TLS protocol, version and ciphers

Learn access control – the need for it, and where and how to position it in the architecture

Learn what JWT token is and its role in security

Learn input validation and its role in curbing ~90% of attacks

Learn to use the right content type and right HTTP method

Learn best practices of REST API security implementation

Learn to Secure REST APIs and make a secure software development lifecycle

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9 Lessons7 Quizzes

Securing REST API

9 Lessons

Introduction: Why We Need to Secure REST APIs

REST API Using HTTPS

Additional Controls for HTTPS Security

REST API Authentication and Access Control

Standardize JWT for Security (Access) Token

REST API Input Validation

Allowed HTTP Methods

REST API Content-Type Validation

REST API Best Practices

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