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API Security and OWASP Top 10

API Security has become a central concern in deploying APIs across portals, devices and cloud services. OWASP Top 10 2017 – RC1 includes API Security provisions. … Read More

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How to Detect and Stop URL Parameter Tampering

In this series on the Top 10 API threats and How to Prevent Them, Forum Systems shares security insights compiled over many years, delivering secure and reliable solutions for web services and API modernization initiatives. #2 How to Detect and Stop URL Parameter … Read More … Read More

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How to Prevent SSL Vulnerabilities Using Powerful API Security

In this series on the Top 10 API threats and How to Prevent Them, Forum Systems shares security insights compiled over many years, delivering secure and reliable solutions for web services and API modernization initiatives. … Read More

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Cloud(ed) Judgment: OneLogin’s Breach Continues to Fuel the Security Debate

When it comes to the next big data breach, it’s never a matter of if, but a discussion of when. This time, the target was identity and access management firm OneLogin, which recently shut down its U.S. data center due … Read More … Read More

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The President’s New EO Gets the Gist of NIST

President Trump introduced his long-awaited Cybersecurity Executive Order last month. While some focused on its similarities to EO 13636 issued by the Obama administration more than four years earlier, we were more concerned with, and quite frankly, excited by, the … Read More … Read More

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PSD2: An Open Concept in Banking Mandating the Use of APIs

A revolution is occurring in European banking and APIs are leading the way. Adopted in 2007, the Payment Services Directive (PSD) “provides the legal foundation for an EU single market for payments, to establish safer and more innovative payment services … Read More … Read More

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Advantages of API Gateway for managing SSL

Through SSL (SSLv3, TLS v1.1/1.2), API Gateways such as Forum Sentry rapidly secure your APIs that shuttle XML, JSON, HTML, SOAP and Big Data.  API Gateways typically sit in front of  your IT components such as web servers, application servers, … Read More … Read More

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Buy vs. Build: Application Security Solutions

In the world of application security, there are numerous options in the marketplace for both buying and building. Purchasing a centralized API security solution isn’t cheap but it can be less expensive than building your own, depending on your situation. … Read More … Read More

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