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Fanie ReyndersModern API Design with ASP.NET Core 2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3519-5_8

8. Securing APIs

Fanie Reynders1 
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Odijk, The Netherlands
 

Having APIs everywhere is excellent, but they need to be secure externally as well as internally. Even a small breach has the potential risk of a damaging ripple effect. API security is not limited to authentication or authorization but also includes protecting the underlying infrastructure, like rate limiting to prevent denial of service (dos) or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Attackers continuously come up with new and creative ways to breach systems, and it’s important to keep on standard and up-to-date with the latest threats out there.

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