Secure RESTful APIs: Simple Solutions for Beginners

by Massimo Nardone

Overview

Secure your RESTful APIs with confidence and efficiency. This straightforward guide outlines the essential strategies and best practices for protecting sensitive data when developing RESTful APIs for your applications.

Inside, you’ll explore the fundamental functionalities to implement industry-standard authentication authorization mechanisms for Java applications. With chapters covering key security concerns, data protection, and designing and testing secure APIs, this book provides a hands-on approach to protecting user data, validating inputs, and implementing security mechanisms such as JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and OAuth2 authentication.

This book offers a focused introduction without unnecessary complexity. Whether you are a beginner or busy professional, this is the only book designed to help you secure your RESTful APIs in no time.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the fundamentals of RESTful APIs and why it is critical to secure them
• Identify common security risks concerning RESTful APIs and explore effective protection techniques
• Know how to design and test RESTful APIs, including with input and response data validation
• Review examples of how to secure JSON Web Token (JWT) and OAuth3 with RestFUL APIs

Who This Book is For

Web developer beginners who want to learn how to develop Security RESTful APIs applications

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798868812842
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	03/09/2025
Series:	Apress Pocket Guides
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	122
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Massimo Nardone has more than 29 years of experience in information and cybersecurity for IT/OT/IoT/IIoT, web/mobile development, cloud, and IT architecture. His true IT passions are security and Android. He holds an MSc degree in computing science from the University of Salerno, Italy. Throughout his working career, he has held various positions, starting as a programming developer, and then security teacher, PCI QSA, auditor, assessor, lead IT/OT/SCADA/SCADA/cloud architect, CISO, BISO, executive, program director, OT/IoT/IIoT security competence leader, VP OT security, etc. In his last working engagement, he worked as a seasoned cyber and information security executive, CISO and OT, IoT and IIoT security competence leader helping many clients to develop and implement cyber, information, OT, IoT security activities. He is currently working as Vice President of OT Security for SSH Communications Security. He is an Apress co-author of numerous books, including Pro Spring Security, Pro JPA 2 in Java EE 8 ,Pro Android Games, and has reviewed more than 70 titles.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction of RESTful APIs.- 2. Key Security Concerns and Risks for RESTFUL APIs.- 3. Data Protection and Validation for RESTful APIS.- 4. Securing JSON Web Token (JWT).- 5. Securing OAtuh2 Authentication Flow.