API Security in REST vs SOAP By @PaulSBruce | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Microservices

There are standards for making sure the information is safe in transit (SSL) and when stored (PCI, SOC, ISO), but where are the standards around the surface area that APIs represent? We want to expose our data, but not the wrong data and never to the wrong people. APIs are now part of our front-line defense layer and we need to treat it with the same concern and specificity as we do any other security risk. Two types of APIs dominate the landscape: SOAP and REST web services. SOAP, while implemented widely in the enterprise, is ceding ground to the modern REST pattern for web services. Both expose data over HTTP requests and responses, but use vastly different formats and semantics to do so, and therefore have different security considerations you should pay attention to.

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