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 ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

When building your .NET applications, you will often need to generate API documentation. To do this, you might use Swagger, a toolkit that makes it simple to provide a graphical representation of your ...

API security risk has dramatically evolved in the last two years. Jason Kent, Hacker-in-Residence at Cequence Security, discusses the top API security concerns today and how to address them. As a long ...

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 ...

In our first post in this series, we talked about authentication: verifying whether someone is who he or she claims to be. In many instances, this is where system administrators call it a day, by ...