Trends Report

Protecting Enterprise APIs With A Light Touch

By 2012, OAuth Will Be The Incumbent Cloud API Security Solution

July 13th, 2011
Eve Maler, null
Eve Maler
With contributors:
Stephanie Balaouras , Andras Cser , Alexander Crumb , Randy Heffner , John Kindervag

Summary

Enterprises face a tension between the cloud-friendly software environment promoted by the Web, with its easy-to-use REST interface style and proliferation of lightweight services, and the security needs of service-oriented architecture (SOA). As developers begin turning to a new security solution called OAuth, security and risk professionals need to recognize which problems it's well-suited to solve and learn how to use it effectively in a variety of scenarios.

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