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Secure Restful APIs: Simple Solutions for Beginners

AUTHOR Nardone, Massimo
PUBLISHER Apress (03/09/2025)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)
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Secure your RESTful APIs with confidence and efficiency. This straightforward guide outlines the essential strategies and best practices for protecting sensitive data when developing RESTful APIs for your applications.

Inside, you'll explore the fundamental functionalities to implement industry-standard authentication authorization mechanisms for Java applications. With chapters covering key security concerns, data protection, and designing and testing secure APIs, this book provides a hands-on approach to protecting user data, validating inputs, and implementing security mechanisms such as JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and OAuth2 authentication.

This book offers a focused introduction without unnecessary complexity. Whether you are a beginner or busy professional, this is the only book designed to help you secure your RESTful APIs in no time.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand the fundamentals of RESTful APIs and why it is critical to secure them
  • Identify common security risks concerning RESTful APIs and explore effective protection techniques
  • Know how to design and test RESTful APIs, including with input and response data validation
  • Review examples of how to secure JSON Web Token (JWT) and OAuth3 with RestFUL APIs

Who This Book is For

Web developer beginners who want to learn how to develop Security RESTful APIs applications
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Product Details
ISBN-13: 9798868812842
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 122
Carton Quantity: 54
Product Dimensions: 6.14 x 0.30 x 9.21 inches
Weight: 0.46 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Illustrated
Country of Origin: NL
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BISAC Categories
Computers | Internet - Web Programming
Computers | Security - General
Computers | Languages - Java
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Secure your RESTful APIs with confidence and efficiency. This straightforward guide outlines the essential strategies and best practices for protecting sensitive data when developing RESTful APIs for your applications.

Inside, you'll explore the fundamental functionalities to implement industry-standard authentication authorization mechanisms for Java applications. With chapters covering key security concerns, data protection, and designing and testing secure APIs, this book provides a hands-on approach to protecting user data, validating inputs, and implementing security mechanisms such as JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and OAuth2 authentication.

This book offers a focused introduction without unnecessary complexity. Whether you are a beginner or busy professional, this is the only book designed to help you secure your RESTful APIs in no time.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand the fundamentals of RESTful APIs and why it is critical to secure them
  • Identify common security risks concerning RESTful APIs and explore effective protection techniques
  • Know how to design and test RESTful APIs, including with input and response data validation
  • Review examples of how to secure JSON Web Token (JWT) and OAuth3 with RestFUL APIs

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Secure your RESTful APIs with confidence and efficiency. This straightforward guide outlines the essential strategies and best practices for protecting sensitive data when developing RESTful APIs for your applications.

Inside, you'll explore the fundamental functionalities to implement industry-standard authentication authorization mechanisms for Java applications. With chapters covering key security concerns, data protection, and designing and testing secure APIs, this book provides a hands-on approach to protecting user data, validating inputs, and implementing security mechanisms such as JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and OAuth2 authentication.

This book offers a focused introduction without unnecessary complexity. Whether you are a beginner or busy professional, this is the only book designed to help you secure your RESTful APIs in no time.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand the fundamentals of RESTful APIs and why it is critical to secure them
  • Identify common security risks concerning RESTful APIs and explore effective protection techniques
  • Know how to design and test RESTful APIs, including with input and response data validation
  • Review examples of how to secure JSON Web Token (JWT) and OAuth3 with RestFUL APIs

Who This Book is For

Web developer beginners who want to learn how to develop Security RESTful APIs applications

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Author: Nardone, Massimo
Massimo Nardone holds a Master of Science degree in Computing Science from the University of Salerno, Italy. He worked as a PCI QSA and Senior Lead IT Security/Cloud/SCADA Architect for many years, and currently works as the Security, Cloud and SCADA Lead IT Architect for Hewlett Packard Finland. He has more than 20 years of work experience in IT, including Security, SCADA, Cloud Computing, IT Infrastructure, Mobile, Security and WWW technology areas for both national and international projects. Massimo has worked as a Project Manager, Cloud/SCADA Lead IT Architect, Software Engineer, Research Engineer, Chief Security Architect, and Software Specialist. He worked as visiting lecturer and supervisor for exercises at the Networking Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto University). He has been programming and teaching how to program with Perl, PHP, Java, VB, Python, C/C++ and MySQL for more than 20 years. He is the author of Beginning PHP and MySQL (Apress, 2014) and Pro Android Games (Apress, 2015).

He holds four international patents (PKI, SIP, SAML and Proxy areas). This book is dedicated to Pia, Luna, Leo e Neve who are the beautiful reasons of his life.

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