OWASP API Security Top 10 Risks - Ultimate Guide

OWASP API Security Top 10 Risks - Ultimate Guide

Dive deep into OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks, How they occur, Practical Demos, their Impacts and Mitigation Strategies

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What you'll learn

• What are APIs and Why and Where they are used?
• How API Security risks are different from Web Application Security risks?
• Common API security risks and ways to mitigate
• Application Security Fundamentals
• Key strategies for secure API design, including access control, authentication, and rate limiting.
• Best practices for API development and security testing.
• What is OWASP? and What is OWASP API Top 10 Project
• Comparison - OWASP API Top 10 Risks 1029 Vs. 2023
• OWASP API Top 10 Risks 2023 - What is each risk and how it occurs
• OWASP API Top 10 Risks 2023 - Real-World Examples and mitigation strategies for each risk
• How to identify and prevent API attacks like improper asset management, and broken object-level authorization.
• How to effectively secure APIs by mitigating security risks and vulnerabilities.

In today's interconnected world, APIs are at the core of modern web applications. As APIs become increasingly vital to business operations and software architectures, securing them is more critical than ever. This course dives deep into the OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks for 2023, providing you with the knowledge and tools to secure your APIs effectively.

Starting with an introduction to the importance of API security, you'll learn how unsecured APIs can expose sensitive data, compromise applications, and disrupt business operations. We will explore each of OWASP's top 10 API security risks -2023 in detail and compare it with predecessor list 2019, discussing real-world examples of vulnerabilities and providing step-by-step guidance on how to mitigate these risks.  You'll learn Best Practices to Secure your APIs from various kinds of attacks.

By the end of this course, you'll not only understand how to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities in APIs but also learn essential API security best practices that you can implement to ensure long-term protection for your systems.

Whether you're a developer, software architect, or security professional, this course will equip you with the skills needed to strengthen the security posture of your APIs and safeguard your applications from common attack vectors.