APIs enable applications to exchange and consume data and services. Due to their ability to access an organization's sensitive data, APIs are an attractive target for malicious hackers and threat ...

Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

API vulnerability scanning and API penetration testing are both important methods for ensuring the security of an API, but they have distinct differences in terms of their scope, methodology and ...

API testing tests four critical areas: endpoints, payloads, authentication and error handling before software reaches production users.

Without proper API testing, disruptions in the back-end exchange of data, files and other information can wreak havoc. If those connections fail, so does the application. To ensure an application ...

The API testing landscape has changed dramatically in the past twelve months. The old classics—Postman, SoapUI, and REST Assured—are still widely used, but a new wave of tools has quietly crossed the ...

These free and free-tier services and open source utilities will have your APIs up and running in no time, and will keep them running smoothly. The rise of RESTful APIs has been met by a rise in tools ...