Nginx on Tuesday released its latest product offering, the Plus R8, which includes an initial release of OAuth 2-based authentication. Nginx CEO Gus Robertson said that many of today's most popular ...

We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

Manfred (@ManfredBo) is API Market Development Director at 3scale – delivering API Management solutions (@3scale on Twitter). Vanessa (@deepbane) is a Product Manager at APItools by 3scale – a tool ...

As identity and access management and single sign-on become more prevalent across government, IT pros should catch up on the differences between different security protocols. Phil Goldstein is a ...

Booking.com, one of the world’s largest online travel agencies, recently patched a vulnerability in its implementation of the OAuth protocol that could have allowed attackers to gain access to ...

It’s been a long time coming, but finally Twitter has released OAuth support to Twitter developers worldwide. Alex Payne, Twitter’s API lead just announced the news via, you guessed it, Twitter. A few ...

Microsoft announced its end-of-support plans for some Exchange Web Services components earlier this month. The company plans to deprecate the Exchange Web Services API for Office 365 users, according ...

Web services are all the rage in development circles, but full-featured application servers like JBoss are terrible overkill for small system solutions. In many situations, simple RESTful interfaces ...