In previous posts I have discussed in depth the importance of authorization, specifically dynamic authorization, to control access to critical information assets. However, authorization is only a ...

Credit card authentication is a way of verifying that a person attempting a credit card transaction is who they say they are and that they are authorized to use that card.

Workload identity federation has come to AI agents. The agentic identity era starts here. Using API Keys to access AI platforms was never going to survive the agentic era. Anthropic’s support for ...

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the backbone of many services and applications, enabling different software to interact with each other seamlessly. However, with this increased ...

Choosing the wrong authentication protocol could undermine security and limit future expansion. These are the recommended protocols for common use cases. Whether you host your authentication system ...

This paper explains how to use the Java Authentication and Authorization API (JAAS). It plugs JAAS into the Struts framework. Though this paper focuses on Struts, and in particular the example ...

Okta's May 2026 update advances its Identity and Access Management platform with automated Workday entitlement governance and expanded network zone detection, strengthening adaptive authentication and ...

AWS Cognito is a cornerstone for securing serverless applications and APIs, providing built-in authentication, authorization, and user management. When paired with AWS API Gateway and Lambda, it ...

When building your .NET applications, you will often need to generate API documentation. To do this, you might use Swagger, a toolkit that makes it simple to provide a graphical representation of your ...

Integration tests are used to check if the different parts of the application work as expected when they are assembled together. When working with integration tests, you will often want to skip ...