David Stewart

Editor's note: This post was originally published in September 2021 in Threatpost. There are two essential elements driving progress in today's digital-first economy: Mobile applications and APIs. An API (Application Programming Interface) is software that allows applications to communicate and exchange data with each other. Read Full Story

Editor's note: This post was originally published in July 2021 in Spiceworks. Back in 2017, Gartner predicted that API abuse would be the most frequent attack vector for data breaches by 2022. Two years later, when exposed APIs already made up 40% of the attack surface for web-enabled applications, the research and advisory company estimated that figure to soar to 90% by 2021. Read Full Story

Penetration testing (Pentesting) is a well understood process for validating network security. The requirements and desired outcomes have been developed over time and are generally clear. However the existence of a mobile channel changes the picture. In this article we tap into our experiences (good and bad) of working with pentesters to validate and verify the efficacy of our customers’ mobile business protection. Read Full Story

Editor's note: This post was originally published in July 2021 in Cyber Defense Magazine. A regular pyramid has 5 surfaces, 4 sloping ones and another as its base. In this article we will walk through the mobile attack pyramid, discussing each of the 5 attack surfaces and recommending best practice for protecting them. Read Full Story

Editor's note: This post was originally published in June 2021 in Security Today. The Covid-19 epidemic has forced the car rental industry into rethinking its value proposition. While it once positioned itself as an ancillary service to the airline industry, generating the bulk of its income through airport locations, a collapse in global airline passenger numbers over the past year may have sped up a process already underway: Far from occupying a segment in the travel industry, car rental companies are now one corner of the Cars as a Service industry. Read Full Story

We are delighted to be hosting some unique content from our friend and recovering hacker Alissa Knight. This is the third blog in a series about the security risks exposed by the push to adopt FHIR APIs in US healthcare. Read Full Story

We are delighted to be hosting some unique content from our friend and recovering hacker Alissa Knight who will be writing on the topic of healthcare API security. In the first article, Alissa provided a plain English explanation of FHIR from the perspective of a hacker. In this blog, Alissa covers mobile API authentication and authorization. Read Full Story

We are delighted to be hosting some unique content from our friend and recovering hacker Alissa Knight who will be writing on the topic of healthcare API security. In this blog, Alissa provides a plain English explanation of FHIR from the perspective of a hacker. Enjoy! Read Full Story

In this article we will look at the challenges of making sure that bots and other automated traffic can’t gain access to your backend systems, no matter how they try. Most enterprises offer services through their website and their mobile app and both attack surfaces must be considered. Ensuring that both channels are properly defended will prevent DDoS, credential stuffing, data scraping and other fraudulent exploits from occurring. Read Full Story

In this article we are going to look at the key use cases you should consider around protecting access to your users’ accounts and what you should think about when building your gold standard security to protect them. Read Full Story