In Part 1 of this 2 part series, I discussed the challenges of the open sharing of data, and consent management model. Now I’ll wrap it up with the need for a common authentication model, shareability, and we’ll start with the most important part – who’s paying for this? Banks have to foot the billThe…
Category: API Design
DevOps in Your API Lifecycle
Your API program may be just starting or well established. Regardless, you have new APIs coming and maintenance in your future. As your program expands, so will your need to incorporate process and automation into your API workflow. A DevOps philosophy provides a framework to help you produce reliable, scalable APIs. What is DevOps? DevOps…
How-to: API Management and HTTP/2
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…
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…
Preparing to Scale your APIs
APIs are now the number one route to market for many businesses. They are driving mobile applications, web applications and other channels like IOT. The API is now the key to the customer experiences and organizations digital transformation. In times of greater demand, such as retail shopping events or health crisis around the world the…
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.
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…
Securing Microservices with API Management
Today more and more enterprises are jumping into the bandwagon of digital transformation. To be competitive and aligned with this digital strategy, many enterprises started converting their monolithic and/or legacy applications into microservices to achieve: Speed to market Improve evolvability Scalability Enhance composability API’s, which are the building blocks of digital transformation, have become the…
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…