https://letsautomate.it/tags/rest/ Recent content in Rest on Lets Automate It Hugo en-us Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:58:59 -0600 https://letsautomate.it/article/common-rest-api-authentication-methods-explained/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:58:59 -0600 https://letsautomate.it/article/common-rest-api-authentication-methods-explained/ <p>When it comes to implementing automation and orchestration, it is critical to understand how authentication works with APIs. The majority of the products in your environment likely have some sort of authentication mechanism. You need to know the nuances and differences between various authentication methods in order to automate communications with those APIs. In this blog post, I aim to help you understand by breaking down three different API authentication methods.</p> https://letsautomate.it/article/understanding-apis-rest/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:03:34 -0600 https://letsautomate.it/article/understanding-apis-rest/ <p>Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platforms rely heavily on APIs (application programming interfaces) to drive orchestration of disparate security tools (products) and invoke desired responses in the form of actions. Besides SOAR products, APIs are commonplace among almost all services, tools, and products used by technical workers.</p> <p>Even though APIs are extremely common, you may not have experience using them or even know that a service has one when interacting with it. For example, Facebook uses an API framework called Graph API.</p>