CHAPTER 14
Patterns and Practices
Chapter 2 touched on some of the key patterns surrounding API security. This chapter expands on that discussion with more concrete details. Here we present ten API security patterns to address the ten most common enterprise security problems. All of the patterns are derived from the concepts and theories discussed in previous chapters.
Direct Authentication with the Trusted Subsystem Pattern
Suppose a medium-scale enterprise has a limited number of RESTful APIs. Company employees are allowed to access these APIs via a single web application while they’re behind the company firewall. All user data is stored in ...
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