Article By: Eunice Mushawatu When publishing, managing, and maintaining application programming interfaces (APIs); running into issues every so often is to be expected, especially in the development and staging phases. The Layer7 API Gateway provides a centralized place for all APIs in an organization. It provides the advantage of a single point of entry for
Article By: Eunice Mushawatu SOAP – REST Transformation Consuming Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) APIs is difficult for app developers working with web and mobile applications. Many of the older platforms built on SOAP APIs were not designed for integration via the web or to be consumed the way we use Representational State Transfer (REST)
Article By: Tiffany Kongpachith Successful identity management requires thorough automation. Symantec Identity Manager’s Policy Xpress (PX) function allows users to automate background functions when running a task set up in Identity Manager. The Policy Xpress (PX) specifically is designed to help automate the creation of endpoints or tasks, but when a task or event is
Article By: Eunice Mushawatu The API Security project focuses on strategies and solutions to understand and mitigate the unique vulnerabilities and security risks of APIs. The Top Ten security threats include:1. Broken Object Level Authorization2. Broken Authentication3. Excessive Data Exposure4. Lack of resources and Rate Limiting5. Broken Function Level Authorization6. Mass Assignment7. Security Misconfigurations8. Injection9.
Article By: Eunice Mushawatu The API Security project focuses on strategies and solutions to understand and mitigate the unique vulnerabilities and security risks of APIs. The Top Ten security threats include1. Broken Object Level Authorization2. Broken Authentication3. Excessive Data Exposure4. Lack of resources and Rate Limiting5. Broken Function Level Authorization6. Mass Assignment7. Security Misconfigurations8. Injection9.
Article By: Eunice Mushawatu Symantec Siteminder is one of the most effective methods of better protecting APIs against unauthorized access. Siteminder protects URLs, and APIs endpoints are exactly that – URLs. This guide is designed to detail how to set up and configure the integration with Siteminder and build a policy that uses Siteminder to
Article By: Eunice Mushawatu The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 is a U.S. government standard that defines minimum security requirements for cryptographic modules in information technology products, as defined in Section 5131 of the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996. The layer7 API gateway appliances as of version 10, do not allow
Article By: Eunice Mushawatu Your organization has acquired the Layer7 API gateway, and you are ready to take advantage of its capabilities to improve your API management and protect your APIs. Below, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide to layer7 API gateway policy writing for the complete beginner, which walks through the basic concepts of
Article By: Eunice Mushawatu The API Security project focuses on strategies and solutions to understand and mitigate the unique vulnerabilities and security risks of APIs. The Top Ten security threats include: Broken Object Level Authorization Broken Authentication Excessive Data Exposure Lack of resources and Rate Limiting Broken Function Level Authorization Mass Assignment Security Misconfigurations Injection
Article By: Eunice Mushawatu The API Security project focuses on strategies and solutions to understand and mitigate the unique vulnerabilities and security risks of APIs. The Top Ten security threats include Broken Object Level Authorization Broken Authentication Excessive Data Exposure Lack of resources and Rate Limiting Broken Function Level Authorization Mass Assignment Security Misconfigurations Injection