Our physical and digital worlds are colliding. A new web epoch approaches — an era called the Internet of Things (IoT). In this realm, home devices, city sensors, smart cars, wearables, and every other device we use is connected to the Internet.| Nordic APIs
API metrics analysis can be used to amplify success within the API space. This piece covers API metrics types, demonstrate applications, and uses two real-life examples of success and failure arising from differing metric analysis methodologies.| Nordic APIs
This article aims to bolster your defenses by defining the four foundations of API security: Authentication, Authorization, Federation, and Delegation.| Nordic APIs
Ping Identity’s Paul Madsen explains how OpenID Connect can be used for Native SSO, Mobile Identity Management & secure Internet of Things applications| Nordic APIs
We review the 3 main methods used for security and authentication control in the realm of APIs - HTTP Basic Authentication, API Keys, and OAuth| Nordic APIs
Inspired by Flavia Sequeira's presentation from the Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2017, we describe what it takes to become an API thinker in a large company.| Nordic APIs
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will require open bank APIs, withholding PSD2 themes of open banking in a post-Brexit European economy.| Nordic APIs
Nordic APIs recently consulted CIBC bank on their microservices framework. We interview Eyal Sivan on their microservices strategy and how the project went.| Nordic APIs
API Keys are not security. By design they lack granular control, and there are many vulnerabilities at stake: applications that contain keys can be decompiled to extract keys, or deobfuscated from on-device storage, plaintext files can be stolen for unapproved use, and password managers are susceptible to security risks as with any application. In this piece we outline the disadvantages of solely relying on API keys to secure the proper access to your data.| Nordic APIs
In this piece, we’re going to look at OAuth, and give a brief rundown of each flow type. We’ll look at when each flow is appropriate, and what its specific use case is.| Nordic APIs
PSD2 is an EU regulation that will regulate open banking across Europe, enabling third parties to create new FinTech apps and fostering API economy growth.| Nordic APIs
This post de-mystifies the concept of what 'agile' means in the context of APIs. 7 common misconceptions on agile API development processes are covered, using a few cases from APIs and the Web.| Nordic APIs