Security Boulevard

External Authentication: Exploring WS-Trust for Authentication

Learn how WS-Trust powers external authentication in hybrid identity environments. Explore the Security Token Service (STS) ...
InfoWorld

Build an authentication handler for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core

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 ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

The Growing Threat of Broken Authentication Attacks on APIs

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are integral to the functionality of the internet today. By enabling communications between programs, they make many processes more efficient and convenient, ...
CSOonline

How API authentication vulnerabilities are at the center of cloud security concerns

Microsoft’s cloud services have come under scrutiny in recent months, with APIs at the heart of the matter. Here are some strategies to help mitigate security issues that can arise when using APIs.
InfoWorld

Implement HTTP authentication in Web API

We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...