Philipp Schöne
Cloud-native development and deployment – Interview with Pivotal
For this week’s interview, I’m very happy to welcome Dormain Drewitz, Director Product Marketing at Pivotal.
Philipp Schöne (PS): Hi Dormain (DD), can you please present...
APIzation in the B2B space
"APIs are eating the world" and APIs are sneaking into a lot of areas these days. B2B Communication (EDI) is just one area where...
How to easily secure your APIs with API keys and OAuth?
Securing your API does sound like a complicated thing, but there are some basic things you can consider setting up your API in a...
Ever heard of User Experience APIs?
APIs are often seen as a technology only but they are the essential infrastructure to enable any new User Experience (UX). In this case,...
What is an API client registry?
With the growing number of API clients, it's becoming more important to have a comprehensive API client registry that enables managing all API clients.
What...
Now my Mum starts asking me about API Security
If you get questions from friends or family around topics than usual are things you consider important but have a certain "nerd factor" then...
API Security makes it into OWASP Top 10 RC1
The first Release Candidate of the popular OWASP Top 10 contained “under protected APIs” as one of the Top 10 things to watch out...
What is API Orchestration?
Is it one API or multiple APIs? From the consumer perspective, it's often one API that they consume, but in the background, there might...
Six tactics to secure your APIs proactively
When talking about API security, some people just want to turn on a switch and would like to get a green light on being...
What is an API Catalog?
All APIs should be listed and browsable inside a unified API Catalog. That sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Unfortunately, it takes...
APIs in the world of IoT
I'm sure everybody has heard about IoT or Industry 4.0 and those terms. The question came to me which role the IoT and APIs...
What is an API Product?
API Product? Does this sound strange? Not at all! With the rise of the API Economy where companies start to emerge offering API-based services,...
API attack prevention, a real-life example
I posted a previous article about the ways to protect Web Services and protect REST APIs and got contacted to help with an inquiry around how...
What is API throttling, API quota, API rate limiting and API burst?
In the world of APIs, nobody gives direct access to his resources because you never know how much your services are going to be...
Should REST API security risks keep you awake at night?
With the growth of REST APIs inside enterprises, but also outside their boundaries in their ecosystem, monitoring, protecting, and preventing attacks is key, and...
Zoom on Web Service Security
API Security is an important topic and I would like in this article to get deeper into the specific case of Web Service Security.
Web...
API creation and microservices going mainstream
Building API-based and sophisticated microservices are going more and more mainstream these days. As a consequence of addressing the full lifecycle of APIs, this...
MFT needs API
In large organization’s journey to digital, Managed File Transfer (MFT) owners are often left behind because they are not able to deal with new...
Banking API Security”: N26 API just a big Swiss cheese?
Vincent Haupert recently presented his findings on banking API security that had massive security holes during a 33C3 Congress event. He aptly named his talk...