Restful Web Services Security By Using ASP.NET Web API MVC Based

Abstract

The use of web services APIs play a vital role in the development of project in web where as in the era of rapid development; the use of web services are involved as a software as services; with the assistance of Internet web sites containing the full of useful information. Therefore, the trend of REST has increases, the uses of services development gained much more attention and widely used in last few years. Hence, the values of information security are becoming a challenge. Similarly, the restful web services are becoming a favorite, because it is lightweight, easy to implement and it also compatible with the cross platform solutions like mobile, PDAs and enterprises applications. As it has not any predefined security model, therefore the engineers also take the responsibility to implement the techniques to secure the information of enterprises. In this study our focus is to explore the best practices such as claim based, web tokens and delegation based by using Asp.Net Web API.