Authentication and authorization may sound similar, but they play different roles in API security. Authentication is about verifying who you are, while authorization is about what you're allowed to do ...

Broken authentication, or broken user authentication, is a term that encompasses a handful of different weaknesses in an API’s user authentication process. This applies to APIs that lack ...

At Black Hat USA 2025, Dirk-jan Mollema showed how low-privilege cloud accounts can be turned into hybrid admins, bypassing ...

Nearly all companies have experienced security incidents but few have an API security policy that includes dedicated API testing and protection. A defense-in-depth approach that includes boundary ...

George who has developed against myraid web service API’s, observes that each one requires a different authentication mechanism.

The various authentication measures, throttling capabilities, and static security checks seal the chinks in API’s armor. All in all, it would be the same advantages of API - just better!

How to implement basic password authentication for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core using a custom authentication handler that validates the user’s credentials against a database.

Strong Authentication has become an issue of "risk management." Traditionally, authentication has been a binary problem with a binary answer -- you are or are not authenticated ...