Blog | Ramesh Lingappan

Mostly I will be writing blogs on Medium.com . So each blog in this page will only have short description and a link to the actual medium.com article.

Best practices for building secure API Keys

We all know how valuable APIs are. They’re the gateway to exploring other services, integrating with them, and building great solutions faster. You might have built or are thinking of building APIs for other developers to use. An API needs some form of authentication to provide authorised access to the data it returns. There are several authentication standards available today such as API Keys, OAuth, JWT, etc. In this article, we’ll look at how to correctly manage API Keys to access APIs.

What is session hijacking and how you can stop it

This story is for beginners and anyone who has a basic understanding about cookies (sessions cookies), but who’s not sure how to secure them properly. You don’t have to be a security expert to do that. You just have to understand the process and then you will know.