How to Security Test Your APIs with Troy Hunt

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About this Episode

Happy New Year! In this episode we’ll be going back in time to one of my most popular automation podcast episodes: How to Security Test Your APIs with Troy Hunt. Discover what you need to know about the basics of API security testing, including the tools and techniques you’ll need to get started quickly in 2020.

About Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security, an ASPInsider, and a full-time author for Pluralsight—a leader in online training for technology and creative professionals. Troy has been building software for browsers since the very early days of the web and possesses an exceptional ability to distill complex subjects into relatable explanations. This has lead Troy to become an industry thought leader in the security space and produce more than twenty top-rated courses for Pluralsight. Currently, Troy is heavily involved in Have I been pwned? (HIBP) a free service that aggregates data breaches and helps people establish potential impacts from malicious web activity. Troy blogs regularly about web security and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences across the globe and throughout the media to discuss a wide range of technologies. Troy has been featured in a number of articles with publications including Forbes, TIME magazine, Mashable, PCWorld, ZDNet, and Yahoo! Tech.

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