Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the backbone of many services and applications, enabling different software to interact with each other seamlessly. However, with this increased ...

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When building your .NET applications, you will often need to generate API documentation. To do this, you might use Swagger, a toolkit that makes it simple to provide a graphical representation of your ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

Web services are all the rage in development circles, but full-featured application servers like JBoss are terrible overkill for small system solutions. In many situations, simple RESTful interfaces ...

API security risk has dramatically evolved in the last two years. Jason Kent, Hacker-in-Residence at Cequence Security, discusses the top API security concerns today and how to address them. As a long ...

You have a lot of options to choose from when laying out an authorization structure for mobile applications that communicate with a web API. For basic scenarios with low to medium security ...

In previous posts I have discussed in depth the importance of authorization, specifically dynamic authorization, to control access to critical information assets. However, authorization is only a ...