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If there's no larger, cohesive conversation, then various development and operational teams could be taking conflicting approaches to mitigating API security risks. To improve an organization's API security posture, it's critical that outstanding questions are asked and answered immediately so that gaps in security are reduced and closed.
Twitter developers are being warned of a security bug that may have exposed their applications' credential information - including sensitive application keys and access tokens. These applications allow Twitter users to incorporate multiple platforms into their Twitter account - for instance, OutTwit, a Windows application, allows users to access Twitter via Outlook.
Twitter developers are being warned of a security bug that may have exposed their applications' credential information - including sensitive application keys and access tokens. These applications allow Twitter users to incorporate multiple platforms into their Twitter account - for instance, OutTwit, a Windows application, allows users to access Twitter via Outlook.
Twitter last week started sending emails to developers to inform them of a vulnerability that might have resulted in the disclosure of developer information, including API keys. Designed to provide developers using the Twitter platform and APIs with access to documentation, community discussion, and other type of information, the portal also offers app and API key management functionality.
Volterra announced new capabilities for its VoltMesh service to provide globally distributed networking and security for cloud-native, API-centric applications. The Gartner report Ensure Your API Management Solution Supports Modern API Trends Such as Microservices and Multicloud states, "Gartner's 2019 API Strategy and Usage Survey found that 45% of surveyed organizations reported using microservices architecture to build APIs".
Application security testing company GrammaTech announced on Wednesday that it has released an open source tool designed to detect API usage errors. The tool, named SWAP Detector, was developed as part of a research project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and GrammaTech says it can be highly useful for DevOps application security testing.
GrammaTech has released Swap Detector, an open source tool that enables developers and DevOps teams to identify errors due to swapped function arguments, which can also be present in deployed code. API usage errors are a common source of security and reliability vulnerabilities.
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ThreatConnect announced that it has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association and will integrate Microsoft solutions with the ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence and Security Orchestration Automation and Response Platform using the Microsoft Graph Security API. This integration allows ThreatConnect clients to connect with nearly any piece of Microsoft technology, including Azure Sentinel, O365, and Microsoft Defender ATP, using the Microsoft Graph Security API. The integration allows clients to retrieve alerts, perform data enrichment, gain relevant threat intelligence, and carry out incident response actions. The Microsoft Graph Security API is a single interface that connects to Microsoft security products.
Citrix Web App and API Protection is a new, cloud-delivered service that provides comprehensive security for applications and APIs in multi-cloud environments. "The flexible models for work and multi-cloud application deployment that companies must now support have greatly expanded the attack surface that IT needs to defend," said Mihir Maniar, Vice President of Product Management, Networking, Citrix.