Encrypt API Traffic for Privacy

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basics of Ubuntu and VirtualBox • testing APIs via Postman
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encrypting traffic • reverse proxy with NGINX
Sashank Dara
1 week · 6-8 hours per week · BEGINNER
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In this liveProject, you’ll take on the challenge of encrypting web traffic to the ReadBytes news aggregator site. ReadBytes uses a REST API to distribute its content, and you’ll encrypt traffic with the popular open-source web server NGINX. You’ll inspect HTTP traffic, implement HTTPS protocols, and then inspect the HTTPS traffic again.

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Sashank Dara

Sashank Dara received his PhD in cybersecurity from IIIT-Bangalore in the area of applied cryptography and threat intelligence. He’s an expert cybersecurity technologist with more than 17 years of experience in the field, including as a consultant advisor for Manipal Global Education Services’ cybersecurity programs and as a security technology and strategy advisor for security startups including Appknox, Haltdos, and SecurityJourney.com. He remains a trusted information security consultant and advisor for top companies in EdTech, IT/ITes, academia, and real estate. He’s the co-inventor of 5 U.S. patents (and 3 IETF drafts) in the areas of cloud, SDN, and NFV security, and he’s published more than a dozen research papers at IEEE, LNCS conferences in the areas of cloud security, privacy, cryptography, and threat intelligence. A prolific speaker at security conferences and invited talks, Dara is currently the CTO and co-founder of Seconize, an award-winning cybersecurity startup pioneering a cyber risk and compliance management SaaS product suite.

prerequisites

This liveProject is for security operations engineers who know the basics of REST APIs. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with the following:


TOOLS
  • Basics of Ubuntu
  • Basics of VirtualBox
  • Basics of Web Server NGINX
  • Testing APIs via Postman
  • Basics of Docker
TECHNIQUES
  • Basic debugging
  • Security testing

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