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 ...

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 ...

Overview By incorporating a low-code, no-code platform for developers, Descope speeds the production and deployment of multiple authentication methods, whether companies want one-time passwords ...

Authentication is the practice of validating the identity of a registered user attempting to gain access to an application, API, microservices or any other data resource.

The flaw allowed unauthorized users to register and access private applications, bypassing authentication systems including Single Sign-On (SSO). The issue, discovered on July 9, 2025 by Wiz Research, ...

APIs Application Programming Interfaces allow different software systems to communicate with each other. The CAMARA project, ...

One such company, Stytch, just raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding as it launches out of beta with its API-first passwordless authentication platform.

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization behind all web standards, has formally promoted the Web Authentication API to the title of official web standard. This promotion means ...