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Safe serializing

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- [Instructor] It's time to address OWASP Top 10 number three, sensitive data exposure. Now over the past few years, there's been a drastic change in the way we develop software. And much of that change has been powered by APIs and RESTful APIs in particular. Now whether an API is consumed by a single page application, a mobile application, or even another API, it's important to note that APIs are often less observed by people, and therefore more susceptible to overexposure of data. In the past, when a simple HTML page was rendered, with less APIs running in the background, you would see when data was leaked right away, and this would be picked up by the developer in the development process, perhaps QA, or even a customer that would complain to say that something is a little bit off. With APIs, a lot can go wrong as far as overexposure and this would go on under the hood. Unfortunately, hackers know this as well. And it…

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