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API Testing and Development with Postman - Second Edition
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API Testing and Development with Postman - Second Edition

by Dave Westerveld
June 2024
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
9h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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In 2017, Equifax, a large credit reporting agency, announced that they had been hacked. Data from 147 million of their users had been stolen. Years of lawsuits and fines followed and by the time everything had been paid out, the hack had cost Equifax more than 1.7 billion dollars.

Although this is one of the most expensive hacks in history, it is far from the only one. Many thousands of companies have been hacked and lost data. The cost of these hacks might range from dollar amounts that end in billions, to those that are “only” in the millions, but the fact remains that security is an extremely important part of any application.

One of the most common ways that attackers get into systems is through APIs. ...

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ISBN: 9781804617908