REST API Security for Developers: Protect Data in Transit with Clearer Authentication, Encryption, and Error Handling

By Corin Halstead

REST API Security for Developers is a practical guide to building safer APIs with clearer authentication, stronger encryption habits, better access control, and more reliable error handling.

This book explains how REST APIs can expose sensitive data when authentication is weak, tokens are poorly handled, encryption is misunderstood, errors leak too much information, or endpoints are not properly protected. Instead of treating API security as an afterthought, it shows how developers can build safer habits into the design, testing, and maintenance of web services.

Inside, readers will learn about authentication workflows, authorization checks, HTTPS, data in transit, token validation, OAuth and JWT concepts, input validation, endpoint protection, rate limiting, error responses, logging awareness, and API threat modeling. The focus is defensive and practical, helping developers understand how everyday API decisions affect security and user trust.

Written for backend developers, web developers, software engineering students, application security learners, and technical teams, this guide provides a clear foundation for protecting REST APIs in modern applications.

Whether you are building new services, improving existing endpoints, or learning how API security fits into backend development, this book will help you think more carefully about protecting data and handling errors safely.

Buy this book today and start learning how to protect REST API data in transit with clearer authentication, encryption, and error handling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6CF8TM9
• ISBN13: 9798183762570
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"