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
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Berkeley, CA], New York, NY Apress, Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer 2014
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:xiv, 233 pages illustrations
ISBN:9781430268178