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GUEST ESSAY – A primer on ‘WAAP’ – an approach to securing APIs at the web app layer

The Last Watchdog

One could make the argument that Application Programming Interfaces — APIs – are a vital cornerstone of digital transformation. APIs interconnect the underlying components of modern digital services in a very flexible, open way. Related: How a dynamic WAF can help protect SMBs. API complexity.

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Guest Blog: Why it’s Critical to Orchestrate PKI Keys for IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

According to statistica the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected will rise to 23 billion this year. From industrial machinery and intelligent transportation to health monitoring and emergency notification systems, a broad range of IoT devices are already being deployed by enterprises.

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Episode 147: Forty Year Old GPS Satellites offer a Warning about securing the Internet of Things

The Security Ledger

But what does it tell us about the security of the Internet of Things? The post Episode 147: Forty Year Old GPS Satellites offer a Warning about securing the Internet of Things appeared first on The Security. But what does it tell us about the security of the Internet of Things? Bill Malik of Trend Micro joins us to discuss.

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NEW TECH: Silverfort helps companies carry out smarter human and machine authentications

The Last Watchdog

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Digital commerce would fly apart if businesses could not reliably affirm the identities of all humans and all machines, that is, computing instances, that are constantly connecting to each other across the Internet.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

APIs are the snippets of code that interconnect the underlying components of all the digital services we can’t seem to live without. Indeed, APIs have opened new horizons of cloud services, mobile computing and IoT infrastructure, with much more to come. Indeed, API security has become a red-hot topic. Runtime vigilance.

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MY TAKE: Why new tools, tactics are needed to mitigate risks introduced by widespread encryption

The Last Watchdog

Related: Why Google’s HTTPS push is a good thing At the time, just 50 % of Internet traffic used encryption. TLS is the glue that holds together not just routine website data exchanges, but also each of the billions of machine-to-machine handshakes occurring daily to enable DevOps, cloud computing and IoT systems.

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NEW TECH: Brinqa takes a ‘graph database’ approach to vulnerability management, app security

The Last Watchdog

Imposing just the right touch of policies and procedures towards mitigating cyber risks is a core challenge facing any company caught up in digital transformation. Digital transformation is all about high-velocity innovation and on-the-fly change. Related: Data breaches fuel fledgling cyber insurance market.