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API Security 101 for Developers: How to Easily Secure Your APIs

ForAllSecure

In the following sections, we will discuss: API Basics Common API Security Vulnerabilities Best Practices for API Security How to do API Security Automatically By the end of this blog post, you will have a good understanding of API security and the steps you can take to easily secure your APIs. API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work?

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Strong Encryption Explained: 6 Encryption Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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QR Codes: A Growing Security Problem

eSecurity Planet

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for example, governments have recently implemented QR codes to create Digital COVID Certificates for vaccination, tests status and other reasons. Here’s how QR codes work, how hackers can use them against you, and how to defend yourself and your organization. QRL Highjacking.

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What Is Container Security? Complete Guide

eSecurity Planet

Examples of container networking and virtualization tools include VMWare NSX and HAProxy. Container networking tools help organizations manage communication, interoperability, and scalability while still maintaining control over how individual containers interact with each other.

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Hackers Are Now Exploiting Windows Event Logs

eSecurity Planet

The system uses DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files to store some resources the application needs and will load automatically. If it does not find one, the encrypted shell code is written in 8KB chunks in the event logs. Also read: How Hackers Evade Detection. How to Protect Against Event Log Attacks.

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What Is the CIA Triad and Why Is It Important?

IT Governance

This might be the case, for example, if a power cut knocks out an organisation’s servers or if a Cloud hosting provider’s systems are disrupted. Examples of the CIA triad Confidentiality Data confidentiality is most likely to apply in relation to personal data, such as customers’ names, contact details and payment card information.

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Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Asymmetric encryption may require too much processing power for certain devices, making symmetric keys the only option. Many IoT products in the market today will outlive the validity of cryptographic algorithms they use to protect devices and encrypt sensitive data.

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