Proxy Workflows Tokenization can be a good strategy for staying out of the news. These are the headlines of our times: “Hospital warns patients of a data breach” – May 9, 2013. “Hospice informs 800 patients of health data breach” … Read more
Now-a-days every single CIO, CTO, or business executive that I speak to is captivated by these three new technologies: Big Data, API management and IoTs (Internet of Things). Every single organizational executive that I speak with confirms that they either … Read more
It’s springtime and there is a buzz in the air. The API Management market place is heating up. Businesses are seeing the value in exposing data. In the world of Healthcare IT, the drive to accelerate electronic health record adoption collides … Read more
A few weeks ago I blogged about different Mobile Middleware usage models for enterprise. Continuing that thread, this post will drill down into API security considerations for enterprise mobile apps. Mobile applications are typically intended for use outside of the … 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
I keep telling my customers, it is not about what you think is important but it is about what your customers (internal, external or partners) see as important when it comes to building APIs and mobile apps, or APIs for … Read more
The market for APIs has experienced explosive growth in recent years, yet one of the major issues that providers still face is the protection and hardening of the APIs that they expose to users. In particular, when you are exposing … Read more
The Enterprise software industry has grown up around the standard three tier-architecture for web applications, which was pioneered circa 1995. This architecture is ideal for web browsers, which have become the universal client of the Enterprise. With the introduction of … Read more
The transition from a browser-only world to the mobile app proliferation of today, necessitates a host of new considerations when it comes to securing the enterprise network. Our latest whitepaper, “A Unified Mobile Architecture for the Modern Data Center,” analyzes … Read more
