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API Authentication: What Is It?

With cybercrime continuing to grow at an alarming rate and cybercriminals getting increasingly clever about how they get their hands on your precious data, API authentication is more important than ever. If you’ve ever logged into an app or website using your Facebook or Google account, then you’ve used API authentication. APIs are the backbone of the internet. They allow disparate systems and login pages to communicate, exchanging user data and triggering actions.

Simplifying Production-Scale API Management With Kong Konnect

Kong Konnect provides developers and API owners a powerful way to secure and manage their API products powered by Kong Gateway (the world's fastest API gateway). Leverage Konnect to manage Kong Gateway data planes operating on-prem and in the public cloud – either as a centralized APIOps platform or federated experience across business units. Ultimately, Konnect enables customers to reduce their operational costs by using our hosted runtime manager, service catalog, developer portal and analytics platform.

Kong Mesh 1.9 and Kuma 1.8 Released with Gateway GA, new CNI and More!

We are happy to announce the release of Kong Mesh 1.9 and Kuma 1.8! This release is packed with features and improvements such as observability for builtin Gateway, a complete rewrite of the CNI and projected service account tokens support. In order to take advantage of the latest and greatest in service mesh, we strongly suggest upgrading to Kong Mesh 1.9.

IDC Selects SmartBear as a Leader in Worldwide Automated Software Quality

We expect software to work. Slow mobile apps and buggy website functionality are unacceptable, given that two-thirds of us do our banking from a mobile app and a quarter of the workforce logs in from their home office. Low-quality, poorly designed software can undermine operational efficiency, create security vulnerabilities, and contribute to customer attrition.

Elastic stack-based Analytics Integration with WSO2 Identity Server

WSO2 Identity Server is an API-driven open source IAM product designed to help you build effective CIAM solutions. ELK-based analytics solution is introduced to view the login and session-related analytics data. Three dashboard templates are provided by default: Auth dashboard, Session dashboard, and alert dashboard. The session dashboard includes statistics related to sessions that get created for different applications accessed via the WSO2 Identity Server. Auth dashboard includes statistics related to login attempts made via the WSO2 Identity Server. The Alert dashboard includes suspicious Login Alerts and Long session alerts.

Multi-Attribute Login with WSO2 Identity Server

Depending on the business, the applications may need to authenticate with different login attributes. For example, social media applications use userId, email, or mobile number as the identifier, Internet banking applications use userId or username as the identifier, Corporate enterprise applications use email as the identifier. In WSO2 Identity Server 6.0.0 provides the capability to use different login attributes as a productized feature. It gives users the flexibility to choose their preferred identity attribute when logging in, such as email, username, or mobile number. A privileged user in the organization can configure the list of allowed attributes that can be used as the login identifier.

SwiftUI 4.0: New and updated APIs with code examples

Since Apple started using SwiftUI in its operating systems, it has been experiencing a noticeable evolution, from redesigns of apps to deep system integrations. The team behind SwiftUI has taken into account the feedback they got on Twitter and other social networking sites, resulting in some fantastic APIs to work and play with this year! Here’s a quote from the session on “What’s new in SwiftUI”: So, let’s dive into everything that SwiftUI 4.0 has to offer you!

The Costs Associated With API Integrations and How To Minimize Them

Application programming interface (API) integrations can be considerable cost savings for your business. Integrating with an API eliminates the need to develop and maintain custom integrations for each application or system you use. However, you should be aware of some costs associated with API integrations before you decide to integrate. This article will discuss the different types of expenses related to API integrations and how to minimize those costs.

WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud Delivers B2B CIAM Capabilities Through Organization Management

WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud supports B2B and B2C business models through the B2B organization management feature. Unlike other CIAM products that are limited to simple organization management, the B2B organization management in WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud handles complex nesting.