Pentesting APIs
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 290 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (September 27, 2024)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1837633169
- ISBN-13: 978-1837633166
eBook Description:
Pentesting APIs: A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs. Learn the essential steps to successfully identify and leverage API endpoints with a sequenced and structured approach.
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 Pentesting APIs 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.
- 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
By the end of this Pentesting APIs book, you’ll have developed practical skills to identify, exploit, and secure APIs against various vulnerabilities and attacks.