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The AI Tsunami: Is Your API Security Ready for the Perfect Storm?

Jul 24, 2024 | f5.com | Byron McNaught

The rise of AI is not all hype and frenzy. There are real implications—for productivity and competitiveness, and for governance and compliance. Every organization will have to evaluate how AI apps impact their business. We’ve already reached an untenable state of risk and complexity with the rapid evolution of apps into API-based systems. Adding AI into the mix is like pouring gasoline on an already burning ball of fire.
Application Security for a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Digital World

Feb 25, 2024 | f5.com | Byron McNaught

Apps and APIs span every generation of architecture—from monoliths to microservices and from client-server to mobile—across data centers, clouds, and at the edge. Organizations strive to achieve digital resiliency, yet 9 out of 10 companies that operate in multi-cloud environments are struggling to maintain a consistent security posture. Join F5 experts to learn how to gain the observability, security, and agility you need to compete in a complex hybrid and multi-cloud digital world.
API Management News, Analysis and Resources

Jan 3, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Byron McNaught |Eric Newcomer |Mor Paz |Andrew Stiefel

Introduction to API ManagementAPI management, a critical aspect of modern digital architecture, involves overseeing the lifecycle of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in a secure, scalable environment. It is the process of creating, publishing, maintaining, and securing APIs, a set of protocols and tools for building and integrating application software. API management is integral to businesses seeking to enhance operations and connectivity in the digital realm.
Replatforming for the Cloud

Apr 13, 2023 | f5.com | Byron McNaught

What does it mean to modernize a legacy system? A common step in any digital transformation journey is to provide the right touchpoints for customers to transact, which, at a minimum, means creating a mobile app. But there is more involved. In the new digital economy, time-to-market pressure has rapidly increased the number of third-party integrations, as organizations “Build, Borrow, or Buy” to grow their digital mindshare and customer base.
API Security Challenges and Best Practices

Apr 4, 2023 | f5.com | Byron McNaught

Security in the Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Digital World"You can't protect what you can't see" and "it takes a village" are familiar expressions within security and risk teams. Visibility and policy enforcement are fundamental pillars in cybersecurity and critical components within a holistic API security strategy. But the existing landscape complicates those efforts. Why?
Get More out of Machine Learning with Data Preprocessing

Mar 21, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Byron McNaught |Alexander Williams |Jack Wallen

Machine learning is used for everything from filtering spam out of email inboxes, to analyzing websites, to personalizing ads and product searches. So when ML developers create new algorithms, they want to know they are producing optimal results. Due to several possible faults, however, machine learning development can often run into problems that delay or detract from effective performance, making results unreliable.
So You Want to Be an API Security Expert?

Mar 16, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Byron McNaught |Byron has.. |Alexander Williams |David Eastman

In his oft-quoted book, “The Art of War,” Chinese general Sun Tzu said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” In the context of cybersecurity, what he said next is even more important: “If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.”In summary: To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.
What the Heck Is the Edge - and Why Should You Care?

Mar 8, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Byron McNaught |Glauber Costa |libSQL. He |Jack Wallen

Let’s face it: our industry has a penchant for buzzwords. As people try to differentiate themselves and establish their own relevance, they often try to do this by inventing and capturing terms that may or may not mean something. So you would be forgiven for thinking that “the Edge” is just yet another such buzzword.
Cloudflare's Wildebeest Not Looking to Upset Mastodon Users

Mar 8, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Byron McNaught |Richard MacManus |Jack Wallen |Sean Scott

Last month, Cloudflare launched a new service called Wildebeest, allowing Mastodon users to set up and run their own instances on its infrastructure. Wildebeest uses a laundry list of Cloudflare services, including Supercloud, Workers, Pages, Durable Objects, and Queues. It’s very much about showcasing Cloudflare’s own products, but (as with Fastly) it is also encouraging to see cloud platform companies getting involved in the nascent fediverse.
Salesforce Gets on the GPT-3 Train with EinsteinGPT

Mar 7, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Byron McNaught |Chris Preimesberger |Jack Wallen |Sean Scott

Whether or not adding Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, or GPT-3, as an AI feature in your application will actually help users, software companies are doing it anyway for two main reasons: No. 1, it actually is highly likely to be an advantage for users, no matter what the results of queries may be; and No. 2, it’s just cool.