Enhancing OAuth Security and Interoperability Using FAPI with Joseph Heenan

FAPI is a refinement of the OAuth commonplace developed by the OpenID Basis. It was conceived to unravel a core drawback of offering a constant method to API safety throughout the monetary trade, with the aim of enhancing interoperability of economic information trade. It has now been adopted throughout many various industries in purposes the place there’s an API that requires a heightened authorization safety implementation.

Authlete is a service that gives a set of APIs to implement OAuth Authorization Servers and OpenID Join id suppliers, permitting both to be simply made FAPI-compliant.

Joseph Heenan is the CTO at Authlete, and he additionally leads the certification program on the OpenID foundation. He joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to speak concerning the origins of FAPI, the motivations for its creation, the standing of FAPI growth, and extra.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Authlete.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Beforehand, Gregor was a CTO throughout cybersecurity, cyber insurance coverage and normal software program engineering corporations. He has been based mostly in Asia Pacific for nearly a decade and may be discovered by way of his profile at vand.hk.