Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the backbone of many services and applications, enabling different software to interact with each other seamlessly. However, with this increased ...
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 ...
API Gateways effectively manage the authentication of the user and provide service orchestration capabilities, but if sensitive data is involved, additional fine-grained authorization capabilities are ...
In previous posts I have discussed in depth the importance of authorization, specifically dynamic authorization, to control access to critical information assets. However, authorization is only a ...
Broken authorization is one of the most widely known API vulnerabilities.  It features in the OWASP Top 10, AppSec conversations, and secure coding guidelines. Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) ...
This paper explains how to use the Java Authentication and Authorization API (JAAS). It plugs JAAS into the Struts framework. Though this paper focuses on Struts, and in particular the example ...
Federation is a model of identity management that distributes the various individual components of an identity operation amongst different actors. The presumption being that the jobs can be ...