This proactive approach can help in patching weaknesses before malicious actors can exploit them Authentication and authorization are vital for API security. We've discussed the differences between ...

With the Firefox 60 release on May 9, Firefox became the first major browser to support the Web Authentication API. This API enables users to avoid text-based passwords for websites and instead ...

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.

Digest authentication still can be used manually, but Mongoose does not expose API functions for this purpose. Along with authentication, authorization can be implemented using a callback registered ...

Click Create. You should now have a new ASP.NET Core Web API project ready to go. We’ll use this project to implement basic authentication for Swagger in the subsequent sections of this article.

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 ...

This paper explains how to use the Java Authentication and Authorization API (JAAS). It plugs JAAS into the Struts framework. Though this paper focuses on Struts, and in particular the example ...

Autoswagger automatically detects authorization weaknesses in APIs and discovers sensitive endpoints not requiring authentication where the application fails to check for a valid API token.

Authentication and authorization go hand-in-hand Some content or resources may be available for public consumption and don’t require any type of identification or authentication – think of ...