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Authentication invoking a web API
Web API security entails authenticating programs or users who are invoking a web API. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Web API securityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Architectural Design, Security Implementation, and Scalability in Web Services, Windows Communication Foundation, and ASP.NET Web APIInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: It Works for One UserThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Prevention of XSS attack using Cryptography & API integration with Web SecurityCited 12 times
- Go sideways: OAuthA closely related topic
- Go sideways: JSON Web TokenA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Prevention of XSS attack using Cryptography & API integration with Web Security
Web Application Security Education Platform Based on OWASP API Security Project
Restful API Security Using JSON Web Token (JWT) With HMAC-Sha512 Algorithm in Session Management
Restful Web Services Security By Using ASP.NET Web API MVC Based
AI-Driven Log Summarization for Security Operations Centers: A Web-Based Approach Using Gemini API
Biometric JSON Web Tokens (BJWT): Enhancing Web API Security with Biometric Key Exchange and OTP-JWT Authentication
Enhancing Web Application and API Security Through Intelligent WAFs and Proactive Threat Management
Security Analysis of LLM-Generated Web API Backends
🆕 Influential since 2022
Architectural Design, Security Implementation, and Scalability in Web Services, Windows Communication Foundation, and ASP.NET Web API
ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF APIs ON WEB APPLICATIONS: CHALLENGES IN CONSUMPTION AND IMPERATIVES OF API SECURITY
Bridging the Gap in Web API Security: A Systematic Review of Vulnerabilities, Misuse Patterns, and Developer Challenges
Análisis de Vulnerabilidades en Sistemas Web Públicos de Ecuador bajo OWASP API Security Top 10:2023: Un Caso de Estudio
📚 Books worth reading
It Works for One UserRavi Vale · 2026
The Road To Microservice ArchitectureRaymond Pairan
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- OAuth OAuth (version 1: RFC-5849, version 2: RFC-6749; sometimes incorrectly extended to open authorization) is an open standard for access delegation, commonly…
- JSON Web Token JSON Web Token (JWT, suggested pronunciation /dʒɒt/, same as the word "jot") is a proposed Internet standard for creating data with optional signature…
- User-Managed Access User-Managed Access (UMA) is an OAuth-based access management protocol standard for party-to-party authorization. Version 1.0 of the standard was approved…
- Token Binding Token Binding is a proposed standard for a Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension that aims to increase TLS security by using cryptographic certificates…
- Authorization Authorization or authorisation (see spelling differences), in information security, computer security and IAM (Identity and Access Management), is the…
- Digest access authentication Digest access authentication is one of the agreed-upon methods a web server can use to negotiate credentials, such as username or password, with a user's…
- Simple Authentication and Security Layer Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols. It decouples authentication…
- Attribute-based access control Attribute-based access control (ABAC), also known as policy-based access control for IAM, defines an access control paradigm whereby a subject's authorization…