Description
API Security Best Practices Course. This course examines the best practices for securing application programming interfaces (APIs) against common threats and vulnerabilities. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are a critical and integral part of modern applications, but they have also become a prime target for cyberattacks. In this specialized course, learners will gain the skills needed to design, build, and protect APIs against real-world security threats. The first part examines key API security concepts and secure design principles. It then teaches how to implement strong authentication, enforce appropriate access permissions, and securely manage confidential information. The final part covers how to defend against injection attacks and build a resilient API that can maintain security under pressure and error. Upon completion of this course, participants will have the knowledge and skills to build secure and resilient APIs that can withstand a wide range of vulnerabilities and attacks. In addition, the course helps developers take a proactive approach to security challenges. By understanding common attack patterns and structural weaknesses, engineers can design their software architecture to be secure from the start against human error and malicious intrusions. Mastering authentication and data encryption standards allows technical teams to deliver their software products to the market with the highest level of confidence and gain user trust in the security of their systems. This training provides a comprehensive roadmap for improving security at all stages of the software development lifecycle.
What you will learn
- Understand key security concepts: Familiarity with fundamental principles and secure design standards for various APIs.
- Implementing Authentication: Learn how to authenticate users and services in a completely secure and standardized manner.
- Applying access permissions: Precisely control access levels and grant necessary permissions to different parts of the program.
- Password and Confidential Information Management: Maintain the security of access keys, tokens, and sensitive system data.
- Prevent injection attacks: Identify and block infiltration routes resulting from malicious code injection.
- Designing resilient APIs: Building resilient systems that maintain their security even in times of crisis and system errors.
- Understanding common vulnerabilities: Exploring real-world attack patterns against web services and APIs.
This course is suitable for people who:
- Software developers: Programmers responsible for building and developing APIs.
- Information Security Engineers: Professionals who seek to improve the security of networked infrastructure and services.
- System architects: Software designers who want to incorporate security principles into projects from the initial design stage.
- Web and mobile developers: People who deal with cloud services and data exchange between client and server.
API Security Best Practices Course Details
- Publisher: Pluralsight
- Instructor: Gavin Johnson-Lynn
- Education level: Intermediate
- Training duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes
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Sample course video
Installation Guide
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Subtitles: English
Quality: 720p
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