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Develop a profound understanding of the inner workings of APIs with a sharp focus on security

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Master the art of building robust APIs with shift-left and shield-right approaches, spanning the API lifecycle

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Along with the exponential growth of API adoption comes a rise in security concerns about their implementation and inherent vulnerabilities. For those seeking comprehensive insights into building, deploying, and managing APIs as the first line of cyber defense, this book offers invaluable guidance. Written by a seasoned DevSecOps expert, Defending APIs addresses the imperative task of API security with innovative approaches and techniques designed to combat API-specific safety challenges. The initial chapters are dedicated to API building blocks, hacking APIs by exploiting vulnerabilities, and case studies of recent breaches, while the subsequent sections of the book focus on building the skills necessary for securing APIs in real-world scenarios. Guided by clear step-by-step instructions, you’ll explore offensive techniques for testing vulnerabilities, attacking, and exploiting APIs. Transitioning to defensive techniques, the book equips you with effective methods to guard against common attacks. There are plenty of case studies peppered throughout the book to help you apply the techniques you’re learning in practice, complemented by in-depth insights and a wealth of best practices for building better APIs from the ground up. By the end of this book, you’ll have the expertise to develop secure APIs and test them against various cyber threats targeting APIs.

Who is this book for?

This book is for application security engineers, blue teamers, and security professionals looking forward to building an application security program targeting API security. For red teamers and pentesters, it provides insights into exploiting API vulnerabilities. API developers will benefit understanding, anticipating, and defending against potential threats and attacks on their APIs. While basic knowledge of software and security is required to understand the attack vectors and defensive techniques explained in the book, a thorough understanding of API security is all you need to get started.

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Explore the core elements of APIs and their collaborative role in API development

Understand the OWASP API Security Top 10, dissecting the root causes of API vulnerabilities

Obtain insights into high-profile API security breaches with practical examples and in-depth analysis

Use API attacking techniques adversaries use to attack APIs to enhance your defensive strategies

Employ shield-right security approaches such as API gateways and firewalls

Defend against common API vulnerabilities across several frameworks and languages, such as .NET, Python, and Java

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Defending APIs by Colin Domoney is a great read for anyone interested in the intricacies of API security. The book is structured really well, starting with an accessible introduction to APIs and gradually delving into more complex topics while still being easy to follow along.Colin has done a great job in presenting the intro topics in a manner that is easy to understand while still being engaging making it ideal for readers who are new to API security. As the book progresses into more technical territory, it continues to maintain its accessibility and readability which makes it a solid resource for both beginners and professionals.As someone who regularly performs security testing, including regular pentests against APIs, I found this book to be beneficial. It provided a deeper understanding of how API vulnerabilities occur, which has helped to improve my ability to assist customers in securing their APIs against the vulnerabilities I uncover during testing.I recommend Defending APIs to anyone looking to enhance their knowledge of API security, whether from an offensive or defensive perspective. This book is a valuable asset for security professionals aiming to help customers secure their APIs or for anyone interested in improving their own API security practices.

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Danishka Navin Mar 13, 2024

This book is a comprehensive guide to mastering API security, delving into everything from the fundamentals to advanced defense techniques. It skillfully explores API vulnerabilities and attacks, providing practical insights on securing your APIs. Every page is a valuable investment, ensuring you gain in-depth knowledge while enjoying a captivating read. A must-have for anyone serious about building robust and secure application programming interfaces!

armb Apr 12, 2024

I'd like to thank Marylou De Mello of Packt for sending me a review PDF copy of "Defending APIs"I wish I'd had this book six years ago when I was responsible for infrastructure security for a microservice based product, but the subject is probably even more important now.I'm amused that Amazon's description says "a thorough understanding of API security is all you need to get started". I suspect that's an AI summary mistake. You can expect to gain a thorough understanding of API security, but "a basic knowledge of software and security" is all you need going in - it starts with an introduction to what API security is and why it is important, introduces API building blocks like authentication and authorisation with basic definitions, and goes on to address, in the words of the preface, "the full spectrum of API security".If you do already have a thorough understanding of API security, it still provides a valuable comprehensive systematic overview of the subject.The detailed table of contents is available on Packt's and O'Reilly's sites for the book so I won't repeat the entire breadth of the content, but it includes "shift-left" pushing security design to early in your development life-cycle, and "shield-right" recognising that run-time defence in depth is still needed after that. Both principles and practical use of tooling are covered, including a section on attacking APIs with tools that are useful both for a defender trying to think like an an attacker and for exploring or reverse engineering existing APIs that didn't follow the "design-first" approach.Every chapter also has a "Further reading" list of links to online material (the lists themselves are also available online, and I expect them to be updated over time).I do have a few minor quibbles. I think the principles of Zero Trust could have been a higher level more general section, because they apply to more than just microservices. I would have liked to have seen the dangers of JWT key confusion (or accepting alg:none) mentioned when JWT is first introduced, if only to reference the existing later coverage, and discussion of scope checking and use of the aud claim. The use of minimalist operating system base container images could have mentioned distroless and the tradeoffs involved.And a very minor point, one exception to introducing building blocks is perhaps the title of the book itself. The book is almost entirely about HTTP REST APIs, with some short sections on GraphQL and very brief sections on gRPC, SOAP, and WebSockets, and that isn't spelt out explicitly until page 36. However, it's exactly what I expected going into the book, and consistent with OWASP API Security Project usage, and APIs which aren't remote/web APIs but do encapsulate a security boundary are a very niche subject.

Eric M Jun 25, 2024

J'utilise ce produit pour améliorer mes connaissances en AppSec pour voir les éléments clés du domaine et contribuer immédiatement au succès de mes projets.

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