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How to Unlock the Potential of the API Economy. (Part 2)

Published February 25, 2021

API Security

By Gary Zimmerman, TechVision Research In part 1 of this API economy blog series, we described how companies are becoming API-first companies in how they are addressing the emerging API economy and how API management is key to the success of those efforts. Another key to success is addressing resource access and data protection policy...

Cloudentity Named Product and Innovation Leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Access Management

Published February 23, 2021

Cloud Identity Management News

By Nathanael Coffing, CSO We’re excited to announce that for the third consecutive year, leading analyst firm KuppingerCole has selected Cloudentity as a “Product and Innovation Leader” in its annual Access Management Leadership Compass. The Leadership Compass highlights the leaders in innovation, product features and market reach for Access Management for on-premise, cloud, and hybrid...

OB 101: A Quick and Simple Guide to Open Banking Adoption

Published February 16, 2021

API Security Customer Experience

Open Banking is globally disruptive and growing exponentially, spurring innovation in financial services. It was developed to create software standards and industry guidelines to drive competition and innovation in the financial services industry. Successful Open Banking APIs have increased by ,10x over the last 18 months and continues to accelerate during the pandemic. Now, Open...

COVID-19 is Accelerating Digital Transformation and Security Challenges

Published January 28, 2021

API Security

By Gary Zimmerman, TechVision We have been saying for a while now that organizations aren’t just transforming, they are becoming Digital Enterprises. This means the transformation is on-going and pervasive as the Digital Enterprise is evolving to better enable the way we do business… And then 2020 happened. In just a few months’ time, the...

Object level Authorization for s3 buckets with the Authorization Control Plane

Published January 20, 2021

API Security

What do CapitalOne, Prestige Software, ManageCartUber, Accenture and the DOD all have in common? Major breaches through Amazon S3 buckets. Amazon’s regular security updates in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 have done little to slow the tide of data leaks. The core problem for S3 is one of authorization both from a scale and a granularity/management perspective. ...

In The News- Cloudentity Monthly Roundup

Published January 13, 2021

News

Check out the latest news about Cloudentity: 1/12/2021, App Developer Magazine, Zero trust framework no longer optional 2021 predictions 1/5/2021, Journal of Cyber Policy, BANKING AND FINTECH CYBERSECURITY PREDICTIONS FOR 2021 1/7/2021, Journal of Cyber Policy, 2021 PREDICTIONS FOR IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT (IAM) 1/6/2021, Enterprise Security Tech, Jasen Meece, CEO of Cloudentity: In 2021, A Zero Trust...

Context To The Rescue:

Published December 23, 2020

News

CLOUDENTITY’S Dynamic Authorization Platform is the New Answer: AWARDED EV20 IAM Solutions 2020 Today, majority of the cloud conversations share a universal thread – how businesses can leverage cloud with flexibility in a multi-cloud environment while putting the proper guardrails to avert any security failures. Businesses seek peace of mind through uncompromising flexibility and simplicity.They...

5 Reasons to Avoid Traditional IAM’s Bridge to Nowhere

Published July 2, 2020

Cloud Identity Management IAM

Even a global pandemic isn’t reducing the demand for digital transformation. As customers look for ways to engage with applications on their smart devices and workforces are increasingly “work from home”, the need for digital transformation has accelerated. Development teams eager to progress app modernization and transformation goals are looking for ways to accelerate the...

What is OAuth 2.1?

Published June 23, 2020

API Security IAM

Introduction The challenge with creating web standards and frameworks is that technology evolves so quickly that within a short amount of time your framework is already out of date. This is especially true for web-based application development, given how different the world looks today than it did in 2012 when the spec was first introduced....

CCPA Compliance with Privacy Ledger

Published June 10, 2020

Legislation

New consumer data privacy regulations seem to be emerging monthly, at a time when most companies are struggling to keep up with existing legal requirements and growing demands from consumers. Embracing customer privacy is increasingly an indication of a healthy brand, providing consumers the confidence needed to share their personal data. This generates consumer trust and builds brand loyalty, allowing brands to be more competitive through an increased level...

Authorization Weighs Heavily on API Security. Try Authorization as Code.

Published May 19, 2020

API Security DevOps Security

In the virtual “… as a code” world there is no place for compromises and exceptions. Infrastructure as code has served as the catalyst for the broader “as code” approach, providing simpler ways to drive digital innovation and scale. There is one problem though: human nature and perception. Any "virtual" entity is harder to control...

API Security? Your API Gateway is not enough.

Published April 8, 2020

API Security

In a review of the API Threat landscape and OWASP API top 10 one finds a diverse spectrum of threats across variety of disciplines including Identity, Inspection, Policy Management, Enforcement and Audit. Unfortunately, a similar review of architecture teams reveals a complex problem. Architecture teams are expecting API Gateways to provide security protection mechanisms to...