Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API

Introduction

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

—Warren Buffett

Few organizations can afford to have dedicated people working on application security. More often than not, a developer or a lead developer from the team is entrusted with the responsibility for retrofitting security into the application or a service. In this quest, the developer looks around, maybe Googles some information, asks a question or two in forums, and rolls his own security implementation without knowing fully the underlying concepts and the implications of the choices he made. This path of least resistance is usually taken because of the project schedule pressures and the lack of emphasis or the focus that the nonfunctional aspect of security generally deserves. ...