Runtime testing platform provider StackHawk today announced it is adding BLT (Business Logic Testing) to its AppSec menu. This new testing capability addresses business logic flaws such as broken object level authorization (BOLA) that an OWASP report said account for 34% of security breaches, the company said in its announcement. The new functionality was built … continue reading
Kong today unveiled the latest release of its open source platform for designing, mocking, debugging, and testing APIs. Insomnia 12 adds new features to enable developers to more rapidly build and test APIs and MCP servers. According to Kong, developers who are building MCP servers are facing similar challenges to what API developers faced years … continue reading
During its API Summit today, Kong announced several new features to help improve the way developers manage their APIs. It announced that Kong Event Gateway will be added to Kong Konnect later this quarter. Kong Event Gateway was first introduced earlier this year, and it provides a unified workspace for building, governing, securing, exposing, and … continue reading
Ever since ChatGPT launched in 2022, developers have been bombarded with countless blog posts, news articles, podcast episodes, and YouTube videos about how powerful AI is and how it has the potential to do the work of developers. Anthropic’s CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei made headlines a few months back when he claimed that “I … continue reading
API discoverability — the ability for developers to actually find your API and use it — has always been important, but it’s becoming increasingly more important as AI agents become more prevalent. “If your APIs are lying around and they’re not discoverable or they’re not documented, then it’s going to be very hard for people … continue reading
At its annual development conference POST/CON, Postman announced several new updates across its platforms to make it easier to design, test, deploy, and monitor AI agents and APIs. One of the main announcements is the introduction of Agent Mode, an AI agent that can interact with all of Postman’s core capabilities. Specifically, it can create, … continue reading
Kong is attempting to make Kafka more approachable to developers by reducing the complexity of managing it via its newly released Kong Event Gateway. The new platform allows developers to “expose, manage, and secure real-time event streams from Apache Kafka as Konnect-managed APIs and services.” According to Kong, this will enable developers to build data-based … continue reading
The shift towards decentralized architectural landscapes, driven by the popularity of microservices, cloud-native technologies, and agile development, presents significant challenges for traditional, centralized API governance models. In modern enterprises, applications are powered by APIs that are developed by distributed and independent teams. This necessitates a paradigm shift in how API governance is approached in such … continue reading
Harness has announced a new offering to help developers secure their cloud-native applications and APIs, the first major update to feature Traceable’s technology since the companies merged earlier this year. Traceable Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) provides web application protection, API security, bot mitigation, and DDoS defense. According to Sudhir Patamsetti, senior. director … continue reading
Snyk has announced a new dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution designed specifically for AI-powered software development. Snyk API & Web allows developers to test the security of all of their APIs and web apps, regardless of if the code was written by a developer or AI. It also provides detailed recommendations on how to … continue reading
Microsoft is introducing a new way for developers to get insight into how applications are accessing data through Microsoft Graph, an API that feeds data into Microsoft 365 applications and other Microsoft cloud services. This new usage reporting API will provide insights into how Microsoft Graph is using resources and how applications are using the … continue reading
Postman is announcing new features designed to enable developers to build APIs at scale in a secure fashion. First, the company announced the release of Spec Hub, an API design platform that provides tools for authoring, governing, and publishing API specifications across multiple formats, such as OpenAPI 3.0 and AsyncAPI 2.0. It offers one-click workflows … continue reading
