As usage of the HTTP/2 protocol becomes more prevalent, it’s clear that your API security solution must be able to handle HTTP/2 traffic. The performance enhancements offered by HTTP/2 make it ideal for high volume network traffic and IOT use cases, and even simpler use cases will reap the benefits. What once seemed like a…
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The Challenging Times of Delivering on OpenBanking, Part 1
The terms, OpenBanking and PSD-2 (Payment Services Directive-2) are largely used interchangeably nowadays to summarise the very significant challenges that are being experienced by the Global financial and Banking sector today. As a response to global financial crisis of 2006, the European Banking Association, 4000+ member banks were mandated, under the regulation, PSD-2, to empower…
TechTalk: OAuth and OpenID Connect
Hosts Aran and Bill were joined by Aric Day, Layer7 Solution Strategist, for an introduction to OAuth and OpenID Connect, and how these work together to ensure a hardened solution.
API Academy Delivers Free Customized API Education by Industry Authorities
Online, virtual, and in-person training will deliver foundational and cutting-edge API lifecycle management, microservices, and digital transformation education to help organizations build skills and excel in the application economy. API Academy, the industry authority for API management thought leadership, is providing a full spectrum of online instructor-led web-based, and in-person API management and microservices training…
Why APIs are Critical Today
APIs are more important than ever in these challenging times where everything is being operated remotely. APIs make it easy to provide access to information and keep businesses running smoothly. They can also create new challenges and risks if they are not properly managed. First, security is paramount to ensure only those that are allowed…
The Importance of API Testing
Like any software, APIs are subject to bugs and other errors. That makes API testing at least as important as other software testing, likely more-so. With potentially hundreds or thousands of consumers, an issue in your API could have a magnifying effect. To maintain software quality, it makes sense to have a robust approach to…
How-to: Real-time API Monitoring
Knowing how your API is performing has always been key, but as our APIs become a more important and a key part of your customer experience it needs to be looked at differently. Traditional API monitoring relies on the API and its components as part of application infrastructure. Although this is important it also misses…
Why Insufficient Logging and Monitoring Can Help Attackers Hide in Plain Sight
I’ve been working in information security for nearly 45 years and started my long journey with punch cards and mainframes leading to today’s cloud and zero-trust. Our world of computing has certainly evolved, and I can’t even recall how many post-security breach investigation teams I’ve been part of or how many cyber incident management teams…
Reactive Logic Overview
Reactive logic is your requirements entered as rules for your schema tables and views in Layer7 Live API Creator. These rules can include event rules, validation rules, and derivation rules. Live API Creator shares these rules across all resources that you explicitly define for your API and associates it with the row objects. This automatic…
API Academy Hits a Birthday
As we approach the eighth anniversary of the founding of API Academy, I look back at the beginning and how far we’ve come. From the very beginning, the original API Academy team focused on agnostic best practices for API strategy and design – creating TechTalks, videos, and blogs, as well as going out around the…