Where is the truth and what’s the fiction ? In this webinar Alexei Balaganski, Lead Analyst at Kuppinger Cole and myself contrasted our experience with customers and prospects and came up with a list of facts and fictions about API security. We both have seen a surge of interest in API security after a challenging […]

42Crunch announces the launch of the first API Security platform
IRVINE, CA, USA, March 6, 2019 — 42Crunch, the leading API security company, announced today the release of the 42Crunch API Platform, the world’s first API security cloud platform to discover vulnerabilities in APIs and protect them from attack. The 42Crunch Platform can protect SaaS, Web, or IoT APIs, as well as microservices. This follows the launch of […]

APIsecurity.io adds API Security Encyclopedia and a free API Contract Security Audit service
LONDON, UK, February 13, 2019 — API Contract Security Audit is a free online tool that lets developers and security professionals upload their OpenAPI definition files and get a detailed security assessment on the potential risks that their APIs might have. Each issue in the report shows the specific place in the API contract that […]

42crunch and CriticalBlue announce partnership
London – Nov 21, 2018 – Today, at the API Security For Open Banking Summit, 42Crunch, the leading backend API security platform and CriticalBlue, provider of Approov, the leading frontend mobile API security solution, announced that they are now offering enterprise customers with an end-to-end API protection service. 42Crunch and CriticalBlue were both named Cool Vendors […]

Token Management Security Best Practices
We recently participated to the DZone mobile apps development guide to highlights some of the key best practices when dealing with API keys and tokens. Below is an excerpt, the full article is available on DZone! Modern applications, both web-based and native, rely on APIs on the backend to access protected resources. To authorise access […]

42Crunch launches APISecurity.io, hires Dmitry Sotnikov as the VP of Cloud Platform
IRVINE, CA, USA, November 5, 2018 — 42Crunch announced today that it has launched APISecurity.io, an online API Security hub that includes, for example, a weekly newsletter, industry news, information on recent breaches and vulnerabilities, standards, regulations, and tools. APISecurity.io provides API developers the much needed single source for up-to-date and relevant information around API […]

42Crunch partners with Kudelski IoT Security group
CHESEAUX-SUR-LAUSANNE, Switzerland and PHOENIX (AZ), USA, December 20, 2017 – The Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S), the world leader in digital security, will demonstrate its IoT Security Suite at CES® 2018. The comprehensive suite of services and technologies targets device manufacturers and service providers who need solid security foundations in order to enable long-term monetization, privacy and […]

API Security FAQ : the top 5 questions we answered at the APIWorld conference!
The APIWorld conference came to end last week. This was the first public preview of our platform! We had a blast talking to many attendees and presenting at the event. This also gave us the opportunity to address a few common questions relative to API security and our product. 1. I have seen 3 vendors […]

Start acting on API Security today!
APIs are the access doors to your enterprise assets and the backbone of pretty much any application that has been written in recent years. While most companies apply token-based access to APIs with OpenIDConnect and OAuth, there are still many aspects of security which are not properly covered for APIs such as common injection attacks, […]

Why do we need the A10 entry in the OWASP Top 10 ?
Without any doubt, APIs have redefined the enterprise architecture landscape by becoming the building blocks of internal and external enterprise applications. APIs are now the entry point into most architectures, much like servlets and JSPs were in the application server era. APIs give access to a wide range of applications, systems, databases and now things with […]