At the Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ developer conference set for August, Rockford Lhotka will explain the ins and outs of authentication across Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and .NET MAUI Hybrid ...

This proactive approach can help in patching weaknesses before malicious actors can exploit them Authentication and authorization are vital for API security. We've discussed the differences between ...

Ideally, you should perform authentication and authorization early in the Web API pipeline. This helps to eliminate unnecessary processing overhead from the request cycle.

Application programming interfaces are critical to provide levels of system access permissions for particular groups of users, but they also present a big problem: Authorization using APIs ...

Authentication and authorization go hand-in-hand Some content or resources may be available for public consumption and don’t require any type of identification or authentication – think of ...

Though there are existing tools that scan APIs, Intruder argues that options to detect broken authorization are either costly, inefficient, or require manual labor from penetration testers to uncover.

APIs provide an added layer of security protection because of robust authentication and authorization mechanisms like OAuth and API keys, which allow the enforcement of fine-grained data access ...