API Security

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API security covers the authentication, authorization, and traffic controls protecting application programming interfaces from abuse and exploitation. Coverage of OAuth and API key management, rate limiting, injection and broken object-level authorization attacks, API gateway hardening, and the testing and monitoring practices securing APIs across development and production.

Authentication

Essential Guide to Rest Assured Authentication Methods and Techniques

REST Assured supports Basic, Digest, OAuth 1.0 and 2.0, API key, and Bearer token authentication. This guide covers how each method works, when to use it, and best practices for integrating authentication into automated API test suites and CI/CD pipelines.