Protecting API Access with BIG-IP using OAuth

As more organizations use APIs in their systems, they've become targets for the not-so-good-doers so API Security is something you need to take seriously. Most APIs today use the HTTP protocol so org...
Published Mar 21, 2017
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Aug 22, 2018

Thanks for the write up. Question: how do you actually configure OAuth in APM to protect the API calls? The documentation does a great job of describing what OAuth is and what it can do on the F5. Translating that information into a solution to protect an API is what I was hoping for.

 

Also, that YouTube video is pretty much a waste of 4:34 minutes. It simply shows that OAuth works. It says nothing about how to do it. I mean, I know that OAuth works. I don't need to watch a Postman demo that proves it. :|