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Learn OAuth 2.0 - Get started as an API Security Expert (Udemy.com)

Imagine what could happen to YOUR career if you knew API Security| Udmy for Business approved| 17000 satisfied students

Created by: Matthias Biehl

Last updated January 2023

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What you will learn

  • Use OAuth to access Google, Paypal, LinkedIn and Facebook APIs
  • Use OAuth in Mobile Apps (client-side).
  • Use OAuth to protect your APIs and Cloud Solutions
  • Apply OAuth Best Practices.
  • Choose the correct OAuth Flow flow for your use-case.
  • Know the OAuth Terminology: Actors, Endpoints, Tokens.
  • Use OAuth in Cloud Solutions (client-side).

How it compares

Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 13% of them
  • Reviews3,063#173 of 1,183 by number of reviews
  • Length4.5 hoursshorter than 56% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2023earlier than 74% of them

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Course Description

Recent Updates
2023-02-06 More than 17420 satisfied students
2023-01-07 NEW Added 4 new videos on Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE)
2023-01-06 More than 17240 satisfied students
2023-01-06 Answered students' questions in the Q&A
2022-12-30 More than 17200 satisfied students
2022-12-29 Answered 4 questions from my students in the Q&A
2022-12-20 Answered 19 questions from my students in the Q&A

This course is for you...

...if you want to improve your market value as a Software Engineer and Security Expert. Imagine what could happen to your professional career if you could add API Security and OAuth skills to your CV! 

API Security experts and engineers who understand OAuth are in HIGH DEMAND, as companies expand their digital business. Plenty of opportunities are waiting for anyone who has the right skills.

Do you want to write best-selling iPhone and Android apps?

The most popular mobile apps integrate with popular social APIs of Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Paypal, and many more. If this is a well-known fact, why do app developers not just do it?

Many app developers are afraid of complicated OAuth integrations. Security is in fact the biggest hurdle for most mobile app developers.

With the knowledge gained in this course, you can use the secret of the best app developers out there and finally integrate your app with social APIs.

Do you want to start out on your own, as an entrepreneur, consultant, or freelancer?  

Knowing API Security and OAuth allows you to realize the big vision of your company in the field of mobile apps, cloud apps, and web APIs, such as Google, Paypal, and LinkedIn.

Do you want to build exciting solutions with next-generation technology? 

Whether you are a web developer, mobile developer, or API developer, architect, or embedded developer for the Internet of Things, today you need to know OAuth to build state-of-the-art solutions.

What does this course offer?

This course offers an introduction to API Security with OAuth 2.0. In 3 hours you will gain an overview of the capabilities of OAuth. You will learn the core concepts of OAuth. You will get to know all 4 OAuth flows that are used in cloud solutions and mobile apps.

If you have tried to read the official OAuth specification, you may get the impression that OAuth is complex. This course explains OAuth in simple terms. The four OAuth flows are visualized graphically using sequence diagrams. The diagrams are then animated so you get to know the interactions step by step and see the big picture of the various OAuth interactions. This high-level overview is complemented with a rich set of example requests and responses and an explanation of the technical details.

Who should take this course?

Do you believe OAuth is complicated? OAuth may seem complex with flows and redirects going back and forth. This course will give you clarity by introducing the seemingly complicated material by many illustrations. These illustrations clearly show all the involved interaction parties and the messages they exchange.

Do you want to learn the OAuth concepts efficiently? This course uses many animated diagrams and sequence diagrams. A good diagram says more than 1000 words.

Do you want to use OAuth in your mobile app? If you want to access resources that are protected by OAuth, you need to get a token first, before you can access the resource. For this, you need to understand the OAuth flows and the dependencies between the steps of the flows.

Do you want to use OAuth to protect your APIs? OAuth is perfectly suited to protect your APIs. You can learn which OAuth endpoints need to be provided and which checks need to be made within the protected APIs.

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Instructor Details

Matthias Biehl

I am a techie at heart with a background in APIs, AI, security and software engineering. At some point, I got a Ph.D.

I use my technical background to help companies define their digital strategy, execute their transformation agendas, and bring innovations to the market.

I love sharing my knowledge in the classroom, at workshops, and in my books. I am an instructor at the API-University, publish a blog on APIs, am the author of several books on APIs, and regularly speak at technology conferences.

My goal as an instructor is to create comprehensive step-by-step courses that break down the complex details into small, digestible pieces. I like to build the kind of material that I myself would have loved to have when I was starting out.

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Reviews

4.2

3,063 ratings on Udemy

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By James Hume on 3/4/2021

Decent course! Allowed me use OAuth with more confidence, knowing more about what it was doing "under the hood". However, I think it needs a small update to include PKCE to draw attention to the implicit flow no longer being recommended. It would also be worth talking about some of the security vulnerabilities in OAuth and the dangers of poo client-side implementation: From https://portswigger.net/web-security/oauth/preventing:

By Karthik Rajendiran on 11/22/2020

The Course gives a fair explanation of OAUTH2 Basics and how real world scenarios it is applied.
- OID Connect Specification could have included more
- Client Credentials Usecases can be elaborated.
- Summary of Different Grant types and Use cases can be given as a cheat sheet/guide can be given to subscribers
- Password grant flow- It should be clearly specified [ CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_sECRET] should not be sent from browser to authorization server, it should be backend channel communication between Client's backend and to the Authserver

By Harold Wilson on 11/15/2020

Needs a final exam.

By Ryan L. on 10/25/2020

I thought that overall the course was quite informative. Matthias seems to really know his stuff, and I appreciated the examples that he had for LinkedIn, Google, Paypal, etc. My only suggestion for future courses by him would maybe be to better design the sections to reduce repetition. I found that the high-level authorization code-style flow was repeated a few times, which made a bit of a mess of the personal notes that I was taking. As well, some of the videos had very low volume while others had normal, meaning I was adjusting my headphone volume between lectures. Finally, it might be helpful if the flow diagrams were numbered in some cases just to show the sequence of flow (although I know the swimlane diagrams do show this). All being said though, the course was informative and I'm glad to have taken it!

By Yojan Shrestha on 10/23/2020

Good overview of concept overall although wish it went more in details on some of the topics. Some issues with audio but I can live with that.

By Walter Tudorin on 10/8/2020

A bit slow when explaining things sometimes but that gives the opportunity to the audience to digest and assimilate concepts and processes in a better way. Will probably take the OpenID course as well.

By Amrit Mishra on 9/26/2020

The Speed could be improved

By Adnan Wala on 9/24/2020

Nice to have

By Arghya Chakraborty on 9/23/2020

Extremely amateurish recording of videos. I am only going through the videos because my company wants me to. I would not recommend this course at all.

By Rachna Sharma on 9/20/2020

It is explanatory. good content and nicely explain from basics.

By Gordon Cox on 9/17/2020

The pace was too slow

By Rex Peralta on 9/15/2020

Good pacing. I appreciate the preview of what real-world services, and their associated reference material, will be used in conjunction with the exercises in this course.

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Overall Score : 84 / 100