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The Unbundling of Banking - Will banks be "Twilio-ed" ?
This week is API Days Open Banking and Fintech, appropriately taking place in London which is fast establishing itself as the financial technology capital of the world.I'm privileged to be speaking on...
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Solving the Digital Business Puzzle Using APIs and Microservices - Axway and...
When organizations make the choice to put a digital platform in place, a discussion on MicroServices is never far behind. By putting a MicroServices layer in place, an organization creates the...
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Taking API Firewalling to the Next Level
One of the chief functions of an API Gateway is to act as an API Firewall. Many people are familiar with a Web Application Firewall (WAF), but may not be familiar with the concept of the API Firewall....
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Mobile + IoT Summit next Thursday, with Oracle, Appian, Red Hat, Axway, and...
Next Thursday, 24 September, I'm taking part in the online Mobile + IoT Summit with Oracle, Appian, Red Hat, and Cisco. I'll be talking about where mobile and IoT fit in a digital platform, combining...
View ArticleAxway API Management expert required by Cognizant
Readers of this blog might be interested in this full-time position with Cognizant in Bridgewater, New Jersey, which lists hands-on experience with the Axway API Gateway as required.As well as the...
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Test and Protect your APIs - Smartbear and Axway webinar on Sept 10
This week, Axway released our plug-in for the Smartbear Ready!API testing tool. The plug-in provides integration between Ready!API and Axway's API Management solution. As part of the launch, we're also...
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Is an API Portal a Wiki of APIs?
Last week I spoke at the Integration Developer News SOA & API Summit on the topic of "How APIs are Driving Digital Transformation". You can still view the recording (as well as the talks by IBM,...
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SOA & API Summit online this Thursday - with Axway, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat,...
This Thursday, August 20, I'm participating in the SOA & API Summit which is a online event run by Integration Developer News. I'm talking about how APIs are driving digital transformation. I...
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Identity Bridge - How to use an API Gateway to bridge between X.509...
When integrating systems together, identity mediation can be just as vital as protocol mediation. Consider a situation where a user is authenticating with an X.509 certificate. The X.509 certificate...
View ArticleReturn of the XML Bomb
The XML Bomb is an attack which has a long history, which I've documented back in 2009. Today in 2015 it continues to be a cause of concern. As with many security vulnerabilities, perhaps the evocative...
View Article"Beyond the OWASP Top Ten" - watch the session recording by Smartbear and Axway
The recording of the "Beyond the OWASP Top Ten" session at API Craft Boston with Smartbear and Axway is up on LiveStream. Fast forward to minute 42 for Lorinda Brandon of Smartbear kicking off...
View ArticleAxway (Vordel) API Gateway skills required in Raleigh, North Carolina
Readers of this blog might be interested in this position in Raleigh, North Carolina, for a Network Security Engineer (API Gateway). Responsibilities include to "Manage and Design highly complex...
View ArticleAPI First, beyond "portal first", for Electronic Health Records
This week, ProgrammableWeb has a very interesting article by Martin Brennan about how Electronic Health Record (EHR) portals are moving to use APIs. He quotes a Health Data Management story which says...
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APIs - the weak security link in IoT / Home Automation - How an API Gateway...
ProgrammableWeb recently had a story about how Randy Westergren detected that the API into his home controller system was insecure. As he mentions, the response was "No, there is no authentication,...
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API Security - protecting yourself from being the next breach - Boston API...
Over on ProgrammableWeb, Jennifer Wiggins has written a great round-up of discussion about the Buffer API security breach. Although it happened back in 2013, it continues to be a widely-cited API...
View ArticleLinking B2B with APIs
Bill Doerrfeld at Nordic APIs has written today about how APIs are evolving the B2B landscape. This is a particularly interesting article for me, because my personal background is working for an EDI...
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Service Control Gateway
I'm back from a week in London, where one of the highlights was Gartner AADI. This year, I had the privilege of presenting alongside Oliver Cronk from Three UK, and our talk was entitled "How APIs are...
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OpenID Connect (OIDC) on the Axway API Gateway
One of the great features on the latest release of the Axway API Gateway, and our API Management solution in general, is fully support for OpenID Connect (OIDC). OpenID Connect is a new specification...
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API Workshop tomorrow May 15 at Nordic APIs Seattle
First, that's not a typo. Nordic APIs is indeed in Seattle this year. Perhaps next year we'll see "Pacific Northwest APIs" in Stockholm :-).The Seattle line-up for Nordic APIs looks great, with...
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A tale of two electric car smartwatch API strategies
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield has written a piece in Transport Evolved this week about some third-party smartwatch apps developed using Tesla's unofficial API. These follow on from the original unofficial...
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