Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Helping Developers Build Secure APIs From the Start
Developers are already tasked with creating and managing APIs; they must also be empowered to secure them easily.
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The arrival of generative AI in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is arguably the biggest shift in coding in decades. For development teams, tools like GitHub, Copilot, and other AI assistants act as a massive force multip…
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Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Developers are already tasked with creating and managing APIs; they must also be empowered to secure them easily.
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While passkeys can dramatically improve the security and UX of authenticating users to applications, there’s a lot that still rests on the shoulders of developers.
API
In this week’s #TheLongView: The Passkeys authentication standard gets a huge boost, and Arvind Krishna wants workers back in the office.
Blogs
Okta today made generally available an Actions Integration capability that makes it possible to integrate third-party tools without having to write any code. Shiven Ramji, chief pr…
Blogs
In the world of authentication today, session tokens and JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) are the two most popular ways to manage user sessions and maintain a user’s authentication state bet…
Blogs
Multifactor authentication (MFA) is becoming increasingly standard within software development organizations, with GitHub recently announcing that two-factor authentication (2FA) w…
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Relational databases have become the option of choice for organizations wishing to streamline and scale the use, storage and retrieval of data. Many organizations choose AWS Relati…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Applications today use many login and authentication methods and workflows. Here, I’ll share the most relevant and proven authentication workflows, which you can use as a basis for…
Blogs
Most developers need three things in life: Control, interesting projects and the ability to build on the technology of their choice. Now a new development promises to put all three…
Blogs
In this week’s The Long View: Why Apple services were down, Linux gets a huge RNG overhaul, and we wonder if Okta was hacked again.
DevOps Practice
Serverless applications are growing in popularity among DevOps engineers. They provide a convenient, predictable way to run simple processes like CI/CD builds or automation scripts…
Traceable Breach Analysis
What Happened: As part of a bug bounty program, the AppSecure cybersecurity research team found a vulnerability on the authentication mechanism of Facebook. It gave them the abilit…
Blogs
Okta this week lowered the barrier to adoption of DevSecOps best practices by making available an Okta Starter Developer Edition to enable developers to embed Okta authentication,…
Blogs
Through identity and access management (IAM), it is possible to assign policies that determine whether a user and the role can access particular services or not. An IAM system is a…
Blogs
Okta today launched an open source library for using Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens (PASETO) as an alternative to JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to authenticate end users. Randall Degges…
Blogs
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the open source Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) sp…
Features
One issue that has plagued IT since its inception is adding and removing authorized users. Most network and application security rely on somehow validating credentials to confirm t…