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Secure APIs
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Secure APIs

by Jose Haro
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
11h 39m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Secure APIs

3 API security principles

This chapter covers

  • What shift left means for API security and its effect on the development cycle
  • The zero-trust security model and how it applies to APIs
  • Why we must secure our internal APIs
  • The importance of API documentation for security by design
  • Where, how, and why to validate data in our APIs
  • The role of security in continuous delivery

You’re building an API, and halfway through the implementation, you start wondering whether the API will be secure. As you approach the release date, your manager also wants to confirm with you that security is being taken care of. Scrambling for an answer, you put together an API security checklist by looking for online resources such as Shieldfy’s popular API-Security-Checklist ...

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