Security testing with Postman

I only have a few pages in this book to talk about security testing, so I will do my best to give you an introduction to this concept. There is an entire library of books written about security testing. This is a huge and important topic, but since it is not the main emphasis of this book, I will just touch on some of the key ideas and leave it up to you to do some more research if you want to dive deeper into this topic.

There are many people who have job titles that include the term security tester or security researcher. Many have chosen to dedicate their careers to ensuring that we have strong, useful security options in place. If you work at a company that has a dedicated security tester (or testing team), don't hesitate to use those resources. However, no matter how many resources your company has for security testing, I think that every tester should at least have a basic level of knowledge about this. Security is utterly vital to the survival...