DeveloperWeek 2023

Farshad Abasi, Founder and CEO, Forward Security

Many applications are being modernized by leveraging APIs and being decomposed into smaller units typically living in containers. These involve many new tools and technologies that are not always well understood, leading to a poor application security posture. Many application architects and developers who take advantage of these architectures lack the knowledge to apply the required security controls. The ideas, principles and concepts such as API gateways, end-to-end trust, authentication and authorization discussed in this presentation have existed for some time. But this presentation brings it all together to provide a blueprint for modern API and microservices-based application security.