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Panera Bread Shows How Not to Respond to Data Vulnerability
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All companies have an obligation to protect user data as best as they can in accordance with their respective terms of services. When data is compromised, those companies should react quickly to fix it. Panera Bread offers a case study in the wrong way to respond to a vulnerability.

Case Study

Wendell Santos

Security, Developer Relations

04-16-2018

ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Security and Privacy
API University WallarmCastle
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This article is part of a multi-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2017. Security and Privacy APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.

Brief

Joy Culbertson

Security, Authentication, Authorization

01-01-2018

Build a DIY Security Camera With the Twilio API and Raspberry Pi
API University Twilio

The connected camera category has seen much growth since 2014. In this tutorial, we reproduce the basic functionality of a camera like the Nest Cam but with the unique property of being cellular connected. We will use a Twilio Programmable Wireless starter pack and Raspberry Pi to do this.

How-To

Evan Cummack

Security, Cameras, Hardware

10-27-2017

Understanding API Connectivity to Resolve App DDoS Attacks
API University

Cloud-based apps rely on an increasingly diverse set of underlying services, tied together through APIs - and hackers have taken notice. To resolve attacks and outages affecting APIs it is critical to understand and test the performance of the service delivery of application components.

Analysis

Nick Kephart

Security, DevOps, Monitoring

10-13-2017

Best Practices for Building a Secure and Scalable API
API University Raygun

In order for APIs to deliver on a myriad of benefits and objectives, organizations must design them with scale in mind. However, the need to build high-performing APIs that scale with the business ecosystem is pressuring many development teams to build APIs that may be restricting business growth.

How-To

John-Daniel Trask

API Design, API Education, Security

10-04-2017

Understanding What it Takes to Secure Your API
API University

At this point in your API journey, you have made a number of business decisions and a couple of technical ones. Now, several crucial decisions need to be made around security. Securing an API is an often neglected task, yet doing so is at the heart of an effective API strategy.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

Security, API Design, API Education

09-27-2017

How Starbucks Secures Their API, and How One Developer Cracked It
API University

From Slack integrations to coffee buttons, if Starbucks were to open up their API to the public, there are a ton of integrations that third-party developers could create. Tendigi CTO Nick Lee over at the Tendigi blog couldn’t wait so he reverse-engineered the Starbucks mobile app.

On the Web

Seamus Holland

Security

09-11-2017

Why You Should Use Access Tokens to Secure an API
API University

Too many people don’t know the difference between OpenID Connect and the OAuth 2.0 specifications. This results in devs publishing insecure apps because they’re using an ID token to secure the API where they should be using an access token. This article helps explain to you the difference.

On the Web

Seamus Holland

Security, API Design

06-11-2017

Can Blockchain Be Used to Secure APIs?
API University

Blockchain is the digital ledger system in which transactions made in Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are recorded. This identity is changing and evolving quickly, and Blockchain may have found a calling as a security solution for API integrations. Can Blockchain help secure API integrations?

Analysis

Tom Donahoe

Security, Blockchain

06-02-2017

How and When to Use Various API Authentication Methods
API University

There are three standard ways to manage API authentication these days: API keys, OAuth tokens and JSON Web tokens (JWT). Adam Duvander over at the Zapier engineering blog explains how and when to use them. The humble API key is the common and earliest form of API authentication.

On the Web

Seamus Holland

Authentication, Security

03-26-2017

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Panera Bread Shows How Not to Respond to Data Vulnerability
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Build a DIY Security Camera With the Twilio API and Raspberry Pi
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Understanding API Connectivity to Resolve App DDoS Attacks
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Best Practices for Building a Secure and Scalable API
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Understanding What it Takes to Secure Your API
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How Starbucks Secures Their API, and How One Developer Cracked It
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Why You Should Use Access Tokens to Secure an API
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Can Blockchain Be Used to Secure APIs?
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How and When to Use Various API Authentication Methods
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