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    Pentesting APIs: A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs

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    Pentesting APIs: A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs

    Pentesting APIs: A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs
    English | 2024 | ISBN: 1837633169 | 290 pages | EPUB (True) | 17.11 MB

    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.

    Table of Contents
    Understanding APIs and their Security Landscape
    Setting Up the Penetration Testing Environment
    API Reconnaissance and Information Gathering
    Authentication and Authorization Testing
    Injection Attacks and Validation Testing
    Error Handling and Exception Testing
    Denial of Service and Rate -Limiting Testing
    Data Exposure and Sensitive Information Leakage
    API Abuse and Business Logic Testing
    Secure Coding Practices for APIs