April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
More and more organizations are exposing APIs as a part of cloud adoption and this comes with certain security threats.
APIs are prone to DoS attacks and hybrid cloud administrators should ensure that they are able to deal with such attacks. One of the common methods that security professionals use is to disable a particular API key or access token that is used for API authentication. However, since the token or key can easily be generated by sending a simple HTTP request, this approach is not secure and doesn't solve the problem. Another common technique involves tracing the IP address of the invoker of the API and then blocking that IP address. This approach is also not a solution to the problem, as the attacker ...