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

There are two modes we can use while designing an application using REST APIs. These modes are used to pass the information from client to server, and vice versa.

1. **Stateful mode**, so that we can pass some key critical information in our current session.
2. **Stateless mode**, meaning we do not use sessions  to store or pass any information between client and server. JSON Web Token (JWT) is a secure way to authenticate users and share the information. Once the authentication occurs via the identity provider, it provides a JWT token, which is valid for a predetermined period and every request post that will pass this token with each request.

JWT does not make everything secure. First, let’s see the structure of JWT, its possible issues, and how we mitigate those issues.


Learn to standardize access control using JWT and how to validate JWT post-authentication.

Standardize JWT for Security (Access) Token