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API Security Critical to Federal IT Modernization Strategy

  …As Federal agencies seek to incorporate an application programming interface (API) strategy into their IT modernization initiatives, a word of caution: make sure you have API-specific security integrated into your IT infrastructure.   “Modern applications often involve rich client

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Public Cloud API Security Risks: Fact or Fiction?

  …Most cloud services use multi-tenant API gateways (meaning shared across different customers and applications) to identify and verify users, as well as to act as the single point of entry across many disparate APIs. There is an obvious problem

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Public cloud API security: How safe is our data?

  …APIs let applications (and devices) seamlessly connect and communicate. An API can create a seamless flow of data between apps and devices in real time. ProgrammableWeb, a site that tracks more than 15,500 APIs, lists Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube,

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2014-2018 – Has API Security Changed? Yes and No.

Application programming interface (API) security remains a hugely overlooked issue, but Forum Sentry remains on top of its game. Let’s take a trip down memory lane from one glowing 2014 SC Magazine review, to our latest radiant review from CSO’s

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What’s in a (Security) Name? Turns Out, Plenty

“Who would claim to be that who was not? Hmm?” This iconic rhetoric, from the 1987 film, “The Untouchables,” was delivered by Sean Connery’s street-wise policeman Jim Malone when he first meets Kevin Costner’s principled treasury officer Eliot Ness. The

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APIs: Risks, Potential and Security Solutions

  “…government is a sector that already takes API security extremely seriously. Governments need APIs to connect together their vast numbers of IT systems and data stores, and to provide their workforces with modern user interfaces, and mobile access. Without

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