Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Securing RESTful web services

Before you start with learning about securing RESTful web services, I would like to tell you about security in the world of the web. In general, the phrase security describes the measures that are taken to make sure that everything is secure. But what does everything include here? Let's elaborate: security is a way or a process that stops unauthenticated and unauthorized access to confidential data over web applications.

The type of confidential data depends upon the nature of the web application—for example, if the web application is for medical and clinical services, then the confidential information consists of all the patients' data related to their tests, medical history, and so on.

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