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.

Intermediate

9 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

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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This course includes

7 Quizzes

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Course Overview

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 ...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

What You'll Learn

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

Course Content

Securing REST API

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

Course Author

Trusted by 1.4 million developers working at companies

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

Software Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

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