Advanced API security: securing APIs with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWS, and JWE

This book will guide you you through the maze of options and shares industry leading best practices in designing APIs for rock-solid security. It will explain, in depth, securing APIs from traditional HTTP Basic Authentication to OAuth 2.0 and the standards built around it. This book will: provide a...

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Main Author: Siriwardena, Prabath (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Berkeley, CA] Apress 2014
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Links:https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781430268178/?ar
Summary:This book will guide you you through the maze of options and shares industry leading best practices in designing APIs for rock-solid security. It will explain, in depth, securing APIs from traditional HTTP Basic Authentication to OAuth 2.0 and the standards built around it. This book will: provide an in depth tutorial of most widely adopted security standards for API security; teach you how to compare and contrast different security standards/protocols to find out what suits your business needs the best; show you how to expand business APIs to partners and outsiders with Identity Federation; get hands-on experience in developing clients against Facebook, Twitter, and Salesforce APIs, as well as give you an understanding of mitigation security threats. --
Item Description:Includes index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 30, 2017)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 233 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781430268178
1430268174