I just wanted to send a short note that I will be talking about API Management strategy & health care data at the Health Refactored conference next week in Mountain View. I’m hoping to learn a lot of and also … Read more
Last year the Open Data Center Alliance published an excellent whitepaper that defined the concept of “cloud-aware” applications. The ODCA paper sets forth the following recommendations: Everything is a Service Use RESTful APIs Separate Compute and Persistence Design for Failure … Read more
Tokenization is a major trend in application and data security and Gateways are an ideal location to deploy tokenization services. Tokenization replaces sensitive data with benign data. The classic example here is PCI DSS, and the business value of tokenization … Read more
KuppingerCole analyst Craig Burton (of Burton Group originally) wrote a recent article about Façade proxies. You can read the article here: http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/burton/2013/03/18/the-faade-proxy/ As Craig notes, “A Façade is an object that provides simple access to complex – or external – … Read more
Hackathons help you explain APIs to developers. But, do you know who you should be really selling the value of your APIs to? It goes way beyond the developers and IT operational folks. Who do you think it is ……CIO, … Read more
It sounds like a parlor trick, but one of the benefits of API centric de-facto standards such as REST and JSON is they allow relatively seamless communication between software systems. This makes it possible to combine technologies to instantly bring … Read more
This month the Cloud SIG of the PCI Security Standards Council released supplemental guidelines covering cloud computing. We’re happy to see APIs included as a recognized attack surface. As this document makes clear, responsibility for compliance for cloud-hosted data and … Read more
With PCI-DSS 2.0 compliance newly mandated and recent guidance on PCI DSS tokenization[i] this is an excellent time for merchants to review their compliance and PCI scope reduction strategies. One of the more common approaches to reducing PCI DSS Scope … Read more
