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).

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Securing REST API for Web Applications and Services

In this lesson, we’ll learn the best practices that can be applied when developing and publishing REST API endpoints.

Any REST API has a goal to achieve. It either performs some business operation, such as retrieving business-related details or monitoring the system, or it provides an endpoint to better manage the system—either functionally or technically.

# Choose which endpoints are exposed

As much as possible, avoid exposing any endpoint over the internet other than functional REST endpoints. Even with the functional endpoints, we only expose it if we have to.

If it is necessary to expose endpoints other than functional ones, consider the authentication and authorization controls discussed in the earlier lesson and try to have controls outside the code in the deployment environment, such as firewall rules, ACLs, and so on.


Learn the best practices of designing secure REST APIs, which will minimize vulnerabilities.

REST API Best Practices

Choose which endpoints are exposed