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Jan 4, 2023

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The Who, the What, and the Why of OWASP

Who are these people at OWASP? What are they working on? And why should we all be grateful?

What's Up With the Decrease in Tink CASC Score?

Most of the Tink endpoints show a sharp rise in overall latency, beginning on about 27 November. We then get a further sharp rise from about 6 December, which won’t get be flagged up in Insights. We…

Read more…Paul Cray

Nov 28, 2022

So you have an API vulnerability. What does that mean and what can be done?

APIs have been around for decades, but they now power most of the internet. Here’s why they are important, and how to protect them.

Why we’re partnering with 42Crunch

Over the last 12-18 months something has become very clear to us – managing the API lifecycle is utterly critical to organizations of all sizes. And in confirming this fact, two trends have emerged.…

Read more…David O'Neill

Nov 17, 2022

Some of us are old enough to remember when RSS (and Atom) were Big Things. Whatever happened to RSS, or syndication, or feeds, or whatever we want to call it? The short answer is social media. As the…

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Nov 8, 2022

DevOps Trouble in a Post-Twitter World

It is something of a running joke in the monitoring world that a lot of ops work is done via Twitter. And there’s a simple explanation for this: there’s something like a 30-minute gap between a…

Read more…David O'Neill

Nov 3, 2022

New Agents Online!

We have deployed new agents across AWS, Azure and Google and have expanded our network to include the following locations: Cloud Region Location IP address AWS Asia-Pacific Southeast 1 Jakarta,…

APImetrics, tomato pay and Finextra deliver a comprehensive report on UK Open Banking performance over the last year

APImetrics data shows Neobanks outperform CMA9 banks and traditional providers, suggesting technical debt presents a barrier to quality Open Banking solutions SEATTLE, WA, USA , October 26, 2022/…

Read more…David O'Neill

Oct 21, 2022

APImetrics announces 400% use growth

Strong momentum follows successful acquisition, seasoned product leadership, and a bold vision for runtime API governance from performance through to security validation Seattle WA – October 21, 2022…

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Oct 19, 2022

APIs are growing faster than developers can handle

APIs are growing so fast, they are now more than half of most development efforts. But developer skills are not keeping up.

p(50) Considered Useful

Why are we told to ignore the p(50) and concentrate on the p(99)? The obvious reason is that if the p(99) is fine, the p(50) will be fine. If we consider a perfect endpoint that behaves entirely…

Read more…Paul Cray

Oct 15, 2022

OWASP API2:2019 - What is broken authentication and why it’s important

APIs need strong authentication to protect customer data. So, why is broken auth one of the biggest issues with APIs today?

Read more…Jamie Beckland

Oct 7, 2022

OWASP API1:2019 - What is broken object level authorization and why it’s important

Your data escapes when object level authorization is broken

Read more…Jamie Beckland

Sep 13, 2022

Brute Force Attacks and APIs - Watch Those Logs!

All developers have heard of a brute force attack, and maybe even tested it out themselves. However, just like how you check your logs for a brute force attack, we need to keep constant tabs on our API logs to detect security and privacy threats.

Will the Noosphere have an API? The 15th Artificial General Intelligence Conference suggests it will.

Ben Goertzel has been running the annual Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) conference since 2008, and the 15 th edition was back in person this year. It was held over four days in August in…

Read more…Paul Cray

Aug 31, 2022

Postman and APImetrics: Better Together

Postman simplifies the API development lifecycle to the point that it has become a de facto platform for API-first teams. With over 20 million developers, it’s safe to say that everybody in the API…

Read more…David O'Neill

Aug 24, 2022

Twitter’s security issues are way worse than anyone thought

A whistleblower has filed a complaint about Twitter from their documentation of infrastructure to internal security. A lot of user data issues have arisen, let’s dive deeper.

Read more…Jamie Beckland

Jul 15, 2022

Anatomy of an Outage: Auth0

Auth0 suffered a major outage on June 21. It was part of a wider issue with Cloudflare, their cloud edge provider. Their status page tracks the problems reported, which now states the issue happened…

Read more…David O'Neill

Jul 14, 2022

Andrew Brown Joins APImetrics as Chief Product Officer

APImetrics has hired Andrew Brown as Chief Product Officer, the company announced today. “With so many changes on the horizon, we are beginning a new phase in our history,” said David O’Neill, CEO of…

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Jul 14, 2022

API security is now more important than web application security

With the introduction of the OWASP API Top 10, what does this mean for the security of the web?

Read more…Jamie Beckland

Jul 8, 2022

OWASP A02 – Cryptographic Failures: What they are and why they are important

Issue number two in the OWASP Top 10 is Cryptographic Failures. With more web apps becoming available to each other, why do we need to focus on improving it?

Read more…Jamie Beckland

Jul 5, 2022

OWASP A01 - Broken Access Control: What it is and why it’s important

The OWASP Top Ten are the biggest risks to web applications. The number one biggest risk is broken access control. Here’s why it’s important.

Read more…Jamie Beckland

Jun 28, 2022

Revised OWASP Top Ten shows how companies that live by the API also risk dying by the API

The recent revision of the OWASP Top Ten security risks shows just how much the world is driven by APIs.

Read more…Jamie Beckland