API security is complex, and the underlying systems that support it are even more so. Getting a grasp on API security requires understanding many underlying components. Accordingly, any tool that can help contextualize these systems is not only a good educational tool, but it’s also a good business tool. Read more
GDPR, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, came into effect in March of 2018. This new regulation sets the privacy and security expectations for handling user data, and applies to every actor evenly tangentially related to the European market. Read more
API hacking is, unfortunately, part of the modern API landscape. Whenever you have resources exposed to the greater internet, those resources are going to be attacked in some way.
Thankfully, half of the fight is just being aware of the threats against your API. Read more
What options do APIs and microservices have when it comes to authentication and authorization? What is the role of identity in API security?
In our last LiveCast, we sought to discover best practices for handling identity within API security. Read more
Daniel Lindau of Curity provides an overview of important OAuth flows and abilities The API space requires authorization in order to secure data – this is a given in the modern era. Accordingly, implementing the correct authorization system is vitally important, perhaps even more important than the API it is meant to handle authorization for. Read more
