Securing Your Software Supply Chain
The Problem The principle of code reuse is a foundational axiom of software development. This best practice has manifested itself, in part, in the form of centralized package repositories like Nuget and NPM from which developers can access an entire Internet’s worth of libraries to supplement their code. But when using someone else’s code like […]
Software Security For Humans
How secure is your software? Pondering this question can provoke uncertainty (or even fear) depending on the experience level of your software team and the maturity of your control processes. However, this does not need to be the case for most software teams. Software security is not easy, but neither is it exclusively the domain […]
Calling APIs with OAuth2 Access Tokens – The Easy Way!
Scenario: Your API needs to call another REST API – or your Console App or Web Job needs to call some other REST API. You can acquire an access token to that API from an OAuth2 Security Token Service such as Duende Identity Server, Okta, Auth0 or Azure Active Directory. This blog shows you how […]