Web Security for APIs

There's a clear need for security in the software systems that we build. The problem for most organizations is that they don't want to spend any money on it. Even if they did, they often have no idea how much to spend. No particular initiative is likely to imbue your system with “security”, but a strong, deep defensive approach is likely to give you a fighting chance of getting it right.

Web Security as applied to APIs in particular are an important part of the plan. In this workshop, we'll show you how approaches to defining “enough” as well as concrete techniques to employ incrementally in your designs.

In this workshop, we will pick a hands on framework for implementation, but the ideas will generally be standards-based and transcend technology choice so you should have a strategy for mapping the ideas into your own systems.

We will cover a broad range of topics including:

• The concepts behind Building Security in
• Designing for Security
• Authentication and Authorization Strategies
• Identity Management
• Protecting Data in transit
• Protecting Data at rest
• Frameworks for selecting security features
• Attack and Threat Models for APIs