Transition to API-based app development raises security concerns

[Mashiane]

Hi there


was just reading this just now...

Transition to API-based app development raises security concerns - MTN App of the Year

The proliferation of API-centric applications and mission-critical cloud services are causing many organisations to underestimate the required tools and technologies to secure them, new research from edge cloud platform provider Fastly suggests. Fastly conducted a survey of IT and security...

www.appoftheyear.co.za

 

[alwaysbusy]

Always use at least OAuth2 identification for your REST APIs and for Pete's sake, don't try to be a hero and leave the security maintenance of your servers and databases up to the professionals when you release it in production! The reports we receive of attacks they prevented each week can be quite impressive sometimes.

Alwaysbusy