API Security for MERN/NestJS
Training Key Features
- Threat modeling and OWASP Top 10 foundations
- Rate limiting, IP blocking, and bot protection strategies
- Deep dive into Helmet and modern security headers
- Secure cookie and session management with rotation strategies
- Incident response readiness with playbooks and forensics basics
What will be Cover ?
- threat modeling
- OWASP Top 10
- certificates
- mTLS overview
- rate limiting
- IP blocking
- bot protection basics
- Helmet deep dive
- modern headers
- Zod
- class-validator
- tokens
- double-submit cookie pattern
- React escape model
- CSP strategies
- secure attributes
- session rotation
- structured logs
- PII redaction
- alerts
- playbooks
- forensics basics
Benefits: This course empowers learners to build APIs that are resilient against modern attack vectors by applying a threat-model–driven approach to security. Students will gain a practical understanding of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, learn to secure communications with TLS and mTLS, and implement critical defenses like rate limiting, IP blocking, and bot protection. The course covers validation and sanitization best practices, security headers, and protections against CSRF, XSS, and template injection. Learners will also gain expertise in secure cookies, session management, structured logging, and SIEM integration with PII redaction and alerts. Finally, the course emphasizes operational readiness with incident response strategies, including playbooks and forensics basics. By the end, participants will be able to deliver hardened, defense-in-depth APIs for production environments.