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Securing REST API for Web Applications and Services
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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.
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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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