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API Security Best Practices

Secure your APIs against common threats and vulnerabilities. This course teaches you to implement authentication, enforce authorization, prevent injections, and design resilient APIs.

Intermediate
1h 40m

Created by Gavin Johnson-Lynn

Last Updated May 22, 2026

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API Security Best Practices

Secure your APIs against common threats and vulnerabilities. This course teaches you to implement authentication, enforce authorization, prevent injections, and design resilient APIs.

Intermediate
1h 40m

Created by Gavin Johnson-Lynn

Last Updated May 22, 2026

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What you'll learn

APIs are a critical part of modern applications, but they’re a common target for attacks. In this course, API Security Best Practices, you’ll gain the ability to design, build, and protect APIs against real-world security threats. First, you’ll explore core API security concepts and design principles. Next, you’ll discover how to implement robust authentication, authorization, and secret management. Finally, you’ll learn how to defend against injection attacks, and build a resilient API capable of staying secure under stress and failure conditions. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to build secure, resilient APIs that withstand a wide range of vulnerabilities and attacks.

API Security Best Practices
Intermediate
1h 40m
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Gavin Johnson-Lynn - Pluralsight course - API Security Best Practices
Gavin Johnson-Lynn
22 courses 4.5 author rating 358 ratings

Gavin is passionate about security and has an extensive background in software development in regulated environments. He currently works in a Red Team at a FTSE 100 company.

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