Abel Mathew
Empowering solutions through technology | Live a purpose-driven life
Bengaluru, India
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I help drive innovation at a financial services firm with cloud technologies. I led the editorial process for the JavaScript, Jamstack, and Privacy chapters for the 2022 Web Almanac. Participating in hackathons, technology events, and taking workshops excite me.
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Jugaad ways to protect APIs
While shipping products at pace, you may want to implement with minimum configuration but at the same time not compromising security. Therefore, I would showcase two of my favourite ways to plug and play into any project with a near minimum configuration within a limited time at no extra cost.
Scenario
Limit API usage to your application only, preferable with API-key
Jugaad Solution
Use Cloudflare Firewall and Firebase Remote Config(optional) in conjunction to serve as API-key. First, use Firebase to store a random string which will serve as API-key. Then use Cloudflare Firewall to set up a rule to prevent all requests without the key.
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Limit the rate at which users can call your API to prevent misuse
Jugaad Solution
Setting up a full-fledged rate-limiter is a resource-intensive feature. Cloudflare Firewall along with few lines of code, can be used to block a malicious IP if it crosses a pre-defined requests-per-second limit
Abel Mathew
Empowering solutions through technology | Live a purpose-driven life
Bengaluru, India
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