With strong support from Google, Microsoft and other vendors, WebAuthN is poised to become a true standard for passwordless authentication over the web. For decades we’ve been trying to replace the ...

We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...

API keys are a simple authentication method, essentially a unique code used to identify an application. However, as an ...

A look at the recently released YubiKey 5 hardware authenticator series and how web authentication with the new WebAuthn API leverages devices like the YubiKey for painless website registration and ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Passwords are kind of a pain. You probably have sign-in credentials for about a million services, and ideally, they're all ...

“API” is an acronym for application programming interface, a set of protocols that allows two software programs to communicate. APIs are used to power web applications and integrate different software ...

Two-factor authentication is the best protection against any of those, plus so much more. I'll explain what it is and why you should enable it whenever possible. Sometimes called 2-factor ...

Authentication remains one of the most painstaking challenges faced by CISOs in organizations large and small. This longstanding, fundamental element of security continues to cause headaches for ...

An API gateway decouples clients from services, simplifying life for service developers and consumers. It can also provide additional benefits such as monitoring, logging, security, and load balancing ...