Consumer onboarding is one of the, if not the most, important functions of a customer identity and access management (CIAM) solution. An overly complicated onboarding workflow significantly detracts from the consumer experience. Providing an effective, engaging and efficient onboarding workflow without compromising security has always been a challenge among security and risk professionals.
Do you recall what your first password was? It was probably something easy that you could remember easily, such as your birthdate or the name of your pet. However, as you created additional online accounts, your passwords grew more complex and difficult to remember. It's a problem that many people face. As a result, many of us tend to reuse passwords across many accounts, exposing our personal information to theft.
First published on The New Stack. The pandemic has accelerated the shift towards digital channels for banking, retail, and a host of other services. As a result, businesses are shifting their digital transformation initiatives into overdrive in order to meet customer demand for online interactions, which should be both inviting and secure. APIs act as key drivers behind most successful digital enterprises.
An API gateway lets API calls enter and leave to reach their corresponding destination points, better known as microservices, in a system. An API gateway is mainly responsible for routing API calls. Its secondary responsibilities include security, caching, load balancing, rate-limiting, dynamic discovery and routing, management, and scaling the number API calls.
Since 1983, IDEXX Laboratories has provided hardware for in-house diagnostics for veterinarians to conduct tests on samples. The company also provides a reference laboratory service to test samples. It is headquartered in Maine, USA, and has offices in the Netherlands.
Image credits: Julia Sowells With the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020, the use of telemedicine and telehealth services has soared. An article by McKinsey estimated that in 2021, the use of telehealth was 38 times higher than pre-COVID years.
From banks and healthcare providers to retail enterprises and government agencies, application programming interfaces (APIs) live at the heart of many systems. They have become critical to drive digital initiatives and bring a host of benefits — such as the ability to use APIs created by others; compose enterprise capabilities as reusable units to create new sources of revenue; enable better interactions with customers, suppliers, and providers; and quickly respond to compliance requirements.
First published on The New Stack. A problem starts to reveal itself. The team has finished a minimum viable product’s (MVP) business features, and user personally identifiable information (PII) has merged into the same domain as other core objects. Social logins bring their own attributes that need to be captured but don’t line up.
We’re excited to announce that WSO2 API Manager 4.1—a complete platform for building, integrating, and exposing digital services as managed APIs in any environment—is now available. This release improves productivity in development and operations, expands support for different protocols and third-party technologies, and completes the product’s analytics story.
