Web API security entails authenticating programs or users who are invoking a web API.
Along with the ease of API integrations come the difficulties of ensuring proper authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ). In a multitenant environment, security controls based on proper AuthN and AuthZ can help ensure that API access is limited to those who need (and are entitled to) it. Appropriate AuthN schemes enable producers (APIs or services) to properly identify consumers (clients or calling programs), and to evaluate their access level (AuthZ). In other words, may a consumer invoke a particular method (business logic) based on the credentials presented?
"Interface design flaws are widespread, from the world of crypto processors through sundry
embedded systems right through to antivirus software and the operating system itself."[1]
The Web Cryptography API is the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) recommendation for a low-level interface that would increase the security of web applications...
functionality, reliability, performance, and security. Since APIs lack a GUI, API testing is performed at the message layer. API testing is now considered critical...
protocol is known as WebSockets. It is a living standard maintained by the WHATWG and a successor to The WebSocket API from the W3C. WebSocket is distinct...
access to a (possibly proprietary) software application or web service. Open APIs are APIs that are published on the internet and are free to access by...
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The Indexed Database API (commonly referred to as IndexedDB) is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) provided by web browsers for managing...
The SafetyNet API consists of several application programming interfaces (APIs) offered by the Google Play Services to support security sensitive applications...
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enforce security, and encapsulate legacy systems. REST has been employed throughout the software industry to create stateless, reliable web-based applications...
API management is the process of creating and publishing web application programming interfaces (APIs), enforcing their usage policies, controlling access...
exceptions are ASP.NET, and JSP, which reuse CGI concepts in their APIs but actually dispatch all web requests into a shared virtual machine. The server-side languages...
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community that produces freely available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools,...
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web application prior to storing them in the computer, as well as scanning URLs. The service also offers an Android app, which employs the public API...
APIs. List of web testing tools Software performance testing Software testing Web server benchmarking Hope, Paco; Walther, Ben (2008), WebSecurity Testing...
WebGL, Web Storage, Indexed Database API, Web Components, WebAssembly, WebGPU, Web Workers, WebSocket, Geolocation API, Server-Sent Events, DOM Events, Media...
application programming interface (API) provided by the web server to help other developers in extending the web server capabilities. Microsoft uses...
Activity, to define a client-side API providing strong authentication functionality to Web Applications. On 20 March 2018, the WebAuthn standard was published...
trusted web page context. It is a Candidate Recommendation of the W3C working group on Web Application Security, widely supported by modern web browsers...
with backend through an API. In the case of web and mobile frontends, the API is often based on HTTP request/response. The API is sometimes designed using...
Web Messaging, or cross-document messaging, is an API introduced in the WHATWG HTML5 draft specification, allowing documents to communicate with one another...
including web services, web resources, and webAPIs. Web frameworks provide a standard way to build and deploy web applications on the World Wide Web. Web frameworks...
candidate recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium, the standards organization for the web. It is a standardized API that directs the email client to silently...
February 2018, the WebAssembly Working Group published three public working drafts for the Core Specification, JavaScript Interface, and WebAPI. In June 2019...
WebUSB is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) specification for securely providing access to USB devices from web applications. It was...
application programming interfaces (APIs). It allows audio and video communication and streaming to work inside web pages by allowing direct peer-to-peer...
one of the following manner: Web Storage is a W3C standard API that enables key-value storage in modern browsers. The API consists of two objects, sessionStorage...
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is an API in the form of a JavaScript object whose methods transmit HTTP requests from a web browser to a web server. The methods allow...
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