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4 books on API Security [PDF]
Updated: February 24, 2024 | 11 |
Books on API Security serve as invaluable resources for API Security startups by providing comprehensive insights, best practices, and in-depth knowledge essential for building robust and secure application programming interfaces (APIs). These books often cover topics such as authentication mechanisms, authorization protocols, encryption, and threat modeling specific to APIs. They help startups understand the nuances of API security vulnerabilities, potential attack vectors, and strategies to mitigate risks. Additionally, these books often showcase real-world case studies and practical examples, offering hands-on guidance for implementing security measures effectively.
1. API Security in Action
2020 by Neil Madden
"API Security in Action" is a hands-on guide that empowers you to construct secure APIs for various scenarios, providing practical insights into creating a social network API while mastering techniques for flexible multi-user security, cloud key management, and lightweight cryptography. The book delves into the essentials of secure and scalable REST APIs, offering guidance on delivering machine-to-machine interaction within a microservices architecture and ensuring protection in resource-constrained IoT (Internet of Things) environments. APIs play a crucial role in data sharing across services, servers, data stores, and web clients, and this book addresses the security challenges associated with modern data-centric designs, including microservices and cloud-native applications. The comprehensive content covers topics such as authentication, authorization, audit logging, rate limiting, and encryption. Aimed at developers with experience in building RESTful APIs, the examples in the book are presented in Java. Authored by Neil Madden, a Ph.D. holder in Computer Science with expertise in applied cryptography, application security, and API security technologies, the book provides a valuable resource for creating APIs that can withstand complex threat models and hostile environments.
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2. Advanced API Security: The Definitive Guide to API Security
2017 by Prabath Siriwardena
"Advanced API Security: The Definitive Guide to API Security" is your essential companion in preparing for the evolving challenges in enterprise security. This comprehensive guide shares best practices for designing APIs with robust security, exploring various security standards and protocols to help you make informed choices tailored to your specific needs. From traditional HTTP Basic Authentication to the intricacies of OAuth 2.0, this second edition provides an in-depth understanding of widely adopted security standards for API security. Whether you are a seasoned Enterprise Security Architect or a developer new to REST, JSON, Microservices, and API security, this book covers all aspects, offering the latest information and a heightened focus on beginners. The updated edition also delves into securing APIs for the Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring your business thrives while keeping threats at bay. This resource is an invaluable guide for Enterprise Security Architects designing, building, and managing APIs, providing guidelines, best practices, and hands-on experience in developing API clients against major cloud service providers like Facebook, Twitter, and Salesforce. Enhance your API security knowledge and build APIs with unwavering security using the insights, practices, and guidelines provided in this definitive guide.
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3. Advanced API Security: Securing APIs with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWS, and JWE
2014 by Prabath Siriwardena
"Advanced API Security: Securing APIs with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWS, and JWE" serves as a comprehensive reference addressing the evolving challenges in enterprise security, particularly the safeguarding of both public and private APIs. The widespread adoption of APIs in consumer and enterprise domains has exceeded expectations, becoming a vital means of exposing business functionalities to the external landscape. In this context, the protection, monitoring, and management of public and private APIs are imperative, with security considerations evolving significantly over the past five years. The book navigates through this evolution, offering guidance to fortify APIs against potential threats and reap the internal and external benefits of API development. From traditional HTTP Basic Authentication to the intricacies of OAuth 2.0 and related standards, the book provides an in-depth tutorial on securing APIs. Offering industry-leading best practices, the expert author guides readers through the intricacies of API security, facilitating the creation of APIs with robust security measures in place. Whether you are a seasoned professional or new to API security, this book is a valuable resource for understanding, implementing, and comparing various security standards and protocols, enabling you to choose the most suitable approach for your business needs.
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4. Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API
2013 by Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan
"Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API" explores the pivotal role of ASP.NET Web API in ASP.NET MVC 4, serving as the preferred platform for constructing RESTful services accessible across a diverse array of devices. Whether utilized by JavaScript libraries, RIA plugins, RFID readers, or smartphones, your services can be consumed through platform-agnostic HTTP. With such widespread accessibility, prioritizing the effective security of your code becomes imperative. Traditional WCF security protocols, once familiar in the .NET environment, prove less suitable in this evolving landscape, exhibiting limitations in compatibility with diverse standards. Fortunately, ASP.NET Web API offers a straightforward, robust security solution seamlessly integrated into the ASP.NET MVC programming model. Unlike WCF, it eschews SOAP, ensuring compatibility with an expansive range of devices as long as they comprehend HTTP. This book delves into these SOAP-less security techniques, providing a comprehensive focus on securing ASP.NET Web API.
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1. API Security in Action
2020 by Neil Madden
"API Security in Action" is a hands-on guide that empowers you to construct secure APIs for various scenarios, providing practical insights into creating a social network API while mastering techniques for flexible multi-user security, cloud key management, and lightweight cryptography. The book delves into the essentials of secure and scalable REST APIs, offering guidance on delivering machine-to-machine interaction within a microservices architecture and ensuring protection in resource-constrained IoT (Internet of Things) environments. APIs play a crucial role in data sharing across services, servers, data stores, and web clients, and this book addresses the security challenges associated with modern data-centric designs, including microservices and cloud-native applications. The comprehensive content covers topics such as authentication, authorization, audit logging, rate limiting, and encryption. Aimed at developers with experience in building RESTful APIs, the examples in the book are presented in Java. Authored by Neil Madden, a Ph.D. holder in Computer Science with expertise in applied cryptography, application security, and API security technologies, the book provides a valuable resource for creating APIs that can withstand complex threat models and hostile environments.
Download PDF
2. Advanced API Security: The Definitive Guide to API Security
2017 by Prabath Siriwardena
"Advanced API Security: The Definitive Guide to API Security" is your essential companion in preparing for the evolving challenges in enterprise security. This comprehensive guide shares best practices for designing APIs with robust security, exploring various security standards and protocols to help you make informed choices tailored to your specific needs. From traditional HTTP Basic Authentication to the intricacies of OAuth 2.0, this second edition provides an in-depth understanding of widely adopted security standards for API security. Whether you are a seasoned Enterprise Security Architect or a developer new to REST, JSON, Microservices, and API security, this book covers all aspects, offering the latest information and a heightened focus on beginners. The updated edition also delves into securing APIs for the Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring your business thrives while keeping threats at bay. This resource is an invaluable guide for Enterprise Security Architects designing, building, and managing APIs, providing guidelines, best practices, and hands-on experience in developing API clients against major cloud service providers like Facebook, Twitter, and Salesforce. Enhance your API security knowledge and build APIs with unwavering security using the insights, practices, and guidelines provided in this definitive guide.
Download PDF
3. Advanced API Security: Securing APIs with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWS, and JWE
2014 by Prabath Siriwardena
"Advanced API Security: Securing APIs with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWS, and JWE" serves as a comprehensive reference addressing the evolving challenges in enterprise security, particularly the safeguarding of both public and private APIs. The widespread adoption of APIs in consumer and enterprise domains has exceeded expectations, becoming a vital means of exposing business functionalities to the external landscape. In this context, the protection, monitoring, and management of public and private APIs are imperative, with security considerations evolving significantly over the past five years. The book navigates through this evolution, offering guidance to fortify APIs against potential threats and reap the internal and external benefits of API development. From traditional HTTP Basic Authentication to the intricacies of OAuth 2.0 and related standards, the book provides an in-depth tutorial on securing APIs. Offering industry-leading best practices, the expert author guides readers through the intricacies of API security, facilitating the creation of APIs with robust security measures in place. Whether you are a seasoned professional or new to API security, this book is a valuable resource for understanding, implementing, and comparing various security standards and protocols, enabling you to choose the most suitable approach for your business needs.
Download PDF
4. Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API
2013 by Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan
"Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API" explores the pivotal role of ASP.NET Web API in ASP.NET MVC 4, serving as the preferred platform for constructing RESTful services accessible across a diverse array of devices. Whether utilized by JavaScript libraries, RIA plugins, RFID readers, or smartphones, your services can be consumed through platform-agnostic HTTP. With such widespread accessibility, prioritizing the effective security of your code becomes imperative. Traditional WCF security protocols, once familiar in the .NET environment, prove less suitable in this evolving landscape, exhibiting limitations in compatibility with diverse standards. Fortunately, ASP.NET Web API offers a straightforward, robust security solution seamlessly integrated into the ASP.NET MVC programming model. Unlike WCF, it eschews SOAP, ensuring compatibility with an expansive range of devices as long as they comprehend HTTP. This book delves into these SOAP-less security techniques, providing a comprehensive focus on securing ASP.NET Web API.
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How to download PDF:
1. Install Google Books Downloader
2. Enter Book ID to the search box and press Enter
3. Click "Download Book" icon and select PDF*
* - note that for yellow books only preview pages are downloaded
