Most corporations deploy LDAP severs such as OpenLDAP to store identities used for SSO and API identity management. Application users authenticate against these LDAP servers to gain access to APIs. To avoid an intrusive, non-scalable agent-based model — where … Read More … Read More
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Infinite cloud storage scale-out with enterprise IdMs
Public cloud storage providers such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Rackspace Cloud Files provide practically infinite storage capacity for enterprise data center. A secure scale-out for corporate data storage to public cloud providers requires traversing the public-private cloud boundary. … Read More
Using HTTP Basic Auth for API Identity Management
APIs are proliferating corporate networks. Business owners seek APIs that solve their requirements regardless of whether the APIs are homegrown or provided by 3rd parties. For both cases — internal and external APIs — controls have to be enforced on who gets to use what API. This level of API control requires enabling Identity Management for APIs. … Read More
Users, Groups and ACLs for API Identity Management
Identity management is the cornerstone for building a secure infrastructure that uses internal and 3rd party APIs. By defining users, groups, and access control lists (ACLs), companies can granularly control who gets to use what API-based resource. In this tutorial, we will configure users, groups and ACLs on Forum Sentry API Gateway for authenticating users and authorizing API access. … Read More
Protecting your API Listener through SSL
In this tutorial, you will learn how to rapidly protect your corporate APIs by providing a centralized SSL policy for your service. We will use three components for this tutorial: (i) TempConvert – a publicly available service that will be the corporate service that you plan to protect through SSL (ii) Forum Sentry to enable centralized API security via an SSL policy (iii) SOAPSonar used as a testing tool. … Read More
Sleep Better with Centralized API Security
Secure integration has become increasingly important over the past few years. As businesses rely more heavily on applications for conducting transactions and managing personal information, API security has become critically important. When it comes to application security, generally, there are … Read More … Read More
Signer Groups and CRLs for API Security
In this tutorial, we will show how to enable and manage Signer Groups and CRLs rapidly for establishing APIs security using Forum Sentry API Gateway. … Read More
