Sep 13, 2022
Brute Force Attacks and APIs - Watch Those Logs!
All developers know about brute force attacks, but monitoring your API logs constantly is key to catching these security threats.
Read more…APIContext Editorial Team
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Sep 6, 2022
Will the Noosphere have an API? The 15th Artificial General Intelligence Conference suggests it will.
A recap of the 15th Artificial General Intelligence conference, held in person over four days after being organized since 2008.
Read more…Paul Cray
Aug 31, 2022
Postman and APImetrics: Better Together
Postman has become the go-to platform for API-first teams with over 20 million developers, simplifying the API development lifecycle.
Read more…David O'Neill
Aug 24, 2022
Twitter’s security issues are way worse than anyone thought
A whistleblower's complaint reveals Twitter's security and infrastructure issues run deeper than previously known, raising user data concerns.
Read more…Jamie Beckland
Jul 15, 2022
Anatomy of an Outage: Auth0
Auth0 suffered a major outage on June 21 tied to a wider Cloudflare edge provider issue, as tracked on their status page.
Read more…David O'Neill
Jul 14, 2022
Andrew Brown Joins APImetrics as Chief Product Officer
APImetrics has hired Andrew Brown as Chief Product Officer to help lead the company into a new phase of growth and innovation.
Read more…David O'Neill
Jul 14, 2022
API security is now more important than web application security
With the introduction of the OWASP API Top 10, what does this mean for the security of the web?
Read more…Jamie Beckland
Jul 8, 2022
OWASP A02 – Cryptographic Failures: What they are and why they are important
Cryptographic Failures ranks second on the OWASP Top 10. Here's what it means and why it matters as more web apps interconnect.
Read more…Jamie Beckland
Jul 5, 2022
OWASP A01 - Broken Access Control: What it is and why it’s important
The OWASP Top Ten are the biggest risks to web applications. The number one biggest risk is broken access control. Here’s why it’s important.
Read more…Jamie Beckland
Jun 28, 2022
Revised OWASP Top Ten shows how companies that live by the API also risk dying by the API
The recent revision of the OWASP Top Ten security risks shows just how much the world is driven by APIs.
Read more…Jamie Beckland
Jun 20, 2022
Best practice is to send PII using POST, not GET…so why don’t more developers do it?
Developers often send PII via GET requests instead of POST, exposing sensitive data in headers for preventable reasons.
Read more…Jamie Beckland
May 27, 2022
Security and privacy: better together
Peanut butter and chocolate, security and privacy. The perfect combination, but why?
Read more…Jamie Beckland
May 10, 2022
Privacy compliance is getting exponentially more complicated
If you thought your privacy compliance world got complicated when GDPR went into effect in 2018, get ready for a much more complicated landscape in 2023.
Read more…Jamie Beckland
May 3, 2022
The Hotel California problem of personal data
Personal data has a Hotel California problem: you can request deletion, but it never really leaves, pushing consumers to take action.
Read more…Jamie Beckland
Apr 8, 2022
Contxt to present at European Identity and Cloud Conference 2022
KuppingerCole’s annual identity conference will feature a robust privacy discussion, led by our own CEO, Mayur Upadhyaya.
Read more…Mayur Upadhyaya
Apr 7, 2022
APImetrics Q1 Feature Boost
APImetrics rolls out major Q1 features: tabbed views, performance metrics, a new API edit pane, SLO tracking, and more.
Read more…Nick Denny
Apr 4, 2022
Managing privacy in the data layer is not enough
Data teams have spent a decade building privacy into the data stack, but that alone isn't enough to solve the privacy challenge.
Read more…Jamie Beckland
Mar 21, 2022
Contxt wins Innovate UK grant to build machine learning model for personal data minimisation
Contxt won an Innovate UK grant to build a machine learning model that redacts and transforms personal data in motion.
Read more…Mayur Upadhyaya
Mar 16, 2022
Performance Comparison Metrics - New look!
APImetrics unveils a new homepage with performance comparisons, making it easier to manage API performance across providers.
Read more…David O'Neill
Mar 11, 2022
Launching Darkspark - Do you know where your personal data is going?
Darkspark is a free new product from APImetrics that monitors personal data across APIs without adding latency or seeing your data.
Read more…Mayur Upadhyaya
Mar 1, 2022
Why We Are Building Contxt
Risk and compliance teams face endless whack-a-mole tracking personal data across growing sources, systems, and databases.
Read more…Mayur Upadhyaya
Jan 25, 2022
APImetrics Expands With Purchase Of API Science
APImetrics is acquiring API Science, uniting two companies that set out to solve similar problems in API performance monitoring.
Read more…David O'Neill
Jan 7, 2022
Best practices for API monitoring
A downloadable infographic covering best practices for setting up and running an effective API monitoring program.
Read more…APIContext Editorial Team
Oct 13, 2021
API Ratings Advisory Board
APImetrics has launched a premium version of API.expert, delivering the latest ratings data as part of its API Ratings service.
Read more…David O'Neill