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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.

9 lessons
1h
Created by Madhavi
Securing REST API for Web Applications and Services
What's included
  • 9 lessons across 1 modules
  • 7 quizzes with instant feedback
  • AI Tutor on every lesson
Who wrote it
Madhavi
Phani Madhavi is an Engineer by education, passionate about the development of Enterprise Software, author, and specializing in End-End architecture with a special focus on security, Object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile.

Phani Madhavi can be reached at madhavirammohan@gmail.com. - Authored the book - "Robbed Series - SQL Injection 101" - Recipient of CEO award - Senior IT professional with around 20 years of rich cross-cultural experience in the areas of Global Hybrid Delivery Model, Program Delivery, IT Governance/Risk Management, Program Management Project Estimation, Resource Management, Application Development, Agile development - Certified SCRUM master (to be renewed) - Recipient of Merit scholarships by Government - Merits in Education o Was the recipient of Scholarships by the government o Was first in College o Was first in school and district o Active in extracurricular events - Won prizes in Essay Writing and Elocution competitions from School - Big data/machine learning - Setup Offshore development centers which followed agile distributed delivery model with 180 people across multiple delivery centers - Co-authored and published a paper Evolutionary Prototype Model for Web Projects – which was shortlisted for Best of the Best awards in QAI 2000 conference. It was later published in the journal - Software Quality Professional - Shares a patent with another innovator – patent currently under review - Worked on projects which achieved a customer satisfaction rating of 5/5 - Worked on conceptualizing utilizing Big Data which was presented at the board of directors for a firm

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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

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9 Lessons7 Quizzes
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WHY I WROTE THIS COURSE
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).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Madhavi

Phani Madhavi is an Engineer by education, passionate about the development of Enterprise Software, author, and specializing in End-End architecture with a special focus on security, Object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile.

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