Tech Talk Tuesday: OAuth Best Practices for API Access Control

Leverage the OAuth specification for effective access control with Web and mobile APIs

OAuth is fast become the leading standard for access control with Web and mobile APIs. However, OAuth can be complex to implement and the specification is not widely understood. Through its online resources and its OAuth Toolkit product, Layer 7 Technologies aims to help organizations simplify the implementation of this crucial standard.

In this interactive town-hall event, originally broadcast live on the Layer 7 Facebook page, Francois Lascelles (Chief Architect, Layer 7 Technologies) discusses how an enterprise or content provider can leverage OAuth to deploy the access control component of a complete API management solution.