News & Events

Forum Sentry Tutorial: REST-to-SOAP Conversion

REST-to-SOAP conversion is a common use case for the Forum Sentry API Gateway and can be easily configured with Forum Sentry’s point-and-click interface. Coding or XLST is not required to enable this conversion.  … Read More

Three Benefits of Using SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based framework used to authorize, authenticate and communicate attributes and privileges of a user. It provides numerous benefits to enterprises, organizations and governments. However, SAML has been widely adopted for three primary reasons: … Read MoreRead More

EAL Certification is Dead

In October of 2009, the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), transitioned away from Evaluation Assurance Levels (EAL) and moved to Protection Profiles (PP). NIAP made the move to PPs because EAL requirements gave a false level of security. … Read More

Forum Systems Achieves Industry-First International Security Certification

Setting a New Bar in Cloud Security, Forum Sentry is the Only API Gateway to Attain Network Device Protection Profile Compliance BOSTON, August 13, 2014 – Forum Systems Inc. today announced that Forum Sentry is the world’s first API Gateway … Read MoreRead More

Forum Systems and Spargonet to Host Identity Management Webinar

Event Highlights Forum Systems and Spargonet will host a webinar titled “Fundamentals of Identity Management for Mobile and Cloud Computing” on Thursday, June 26, 2014 from 11:00am – 12:00pm EDT. Participants of this webinar will gain valuable insight into the … Read MoreRead More

Heartbleed

Forum Systems CEO featured in CIO Article on Heartbleed

Mamoon Yunus, Forum Systems CEO, was recently featured in Why Open Source Software Isn’t as Secure as You Think by Paul Rubens. The article dives into the potential issues with using open source code to manage secure information traffic, and talks … Read MoreRead More

Heartbleed

Six New OpenSSL Security Vulnerabilities Discovered Since Heartbleed

In a recent security advisory from June 5th, 2014, six new vulnerabilities were disclosed on OpenSSL’s website. It’s important that these news OpenSSL flaws are being discovered quickly and getting fixed. But these new discoveries are indicative of other potential … Read MoreRead More

Three Federated API Requirements for Enterprise Cloud Computing

Successful enterprise API implementations are built on a set of localized, project-level efforts with services that have clearly identified and accountable business and technology owners. Ownership defines an API domain. Deciding what services are core to a business owner and should … Read MoreRead More

Forum Systems to Host Industry Leaders at London API Summit

Event Highlights Forum Systems will host an API Summit in partnership with ASM Technologies on Thursday, May 22 from 10:00am – 5:00pm BST at The Grange St. Paul’s Hotel. The event will feature real-world customer examples and collaborative sessions led … Read MoreRead More

Heartbleed

OpenSSL is Fṓṝked

The flensing began rather quickly with the OpenBSD team cleaning up 90,000 lines of code within a week of Heartbleed.  OpenSSL then got royally fṓṝked by OpenBSD and LibreSSL was born.  The divergence between OpenSSL and LibreSSL continues while OpenSSL … Read MoreRead More