eBook - ePub

Pentesting APIs

Name: Pentesting APIs
ISBN: 9781837639731

A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs

Maurício Harley,

English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Pentesting APIs

A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs

Maurício Harley,

About this book

Learn the essential steps to successfully identify and leverage API endpoints with a sequenced and structured approach

Key Features

Gain detailed insights into vulnerabilities and attack vectors for RESTful and GraphQL APIs
Follow practical advice and best practices for securing APIs against potential threats
Explore essential security topics, potential vulnerabilities, common attack vectors, and the overall API security landscape
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Understanding API security is crucial as APIs form the backbone of modern interconnected applications, making them prime targets for cyberattacks. Drawing on nearly 30 years of cybersecurity experience and an extensive background in network security and forensic analysis, this book provides the knowledge and tools to strengthen your API security practices and protect against cyber threats comprehensively. This book begins by establishing a foundational understanding of APIs, particularly focusing on REST and GraphQL, emphasizing their critical role and potential security vulnerabilities. It guides you through setting up a penetration testing environment to ensure the practical application of concepts. You'll learn reconnaissance techniques, information-gathering strategies, and the discovery of API vulnerabilities. Authentication and authorization testing are thoroughly explored, covering mechanisms, weaknesses, and methods to bypass security controls. By comprehensively addressing these aspects, the book equips you to understand, identify, and mitigate risks, strengthening API security and effectively minimizing potential attack surfaces. By the end of this book, you'll have developed practical skills to identify, exploit, and secure APIs against various vulnerabilities and attacks.

What you will learn

Get an introduction to APIs and their relationship with security
Set up an effective pentesting lab for API intrusion
Conduct API reconnaissance and information gathering in the discovery phase
Execute basic attacks such as injection, exception handling, and DoS
Perform advanced attacks, including data exposure and business logic abuse
Benefit from expert security recommendations to protect APIs against attacks

Who this book is for

This book is for security engineers, particularly those focused on application security, as well as security analysts, application owners, web developers, pentesters, and all curious enthusiasts who want to learn about APIs, effective testing methods for their robustness, and how to protect them against cyber attacks. Basic knowledge of web development, familiarity with API concepts, and a foundational understanding of cybersecurity principles will help you get started with this book.

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