Developer Newsletter - October 2023

Romana Vasyleha

Product Updates

Our AuthN service is out of Beta and available to all users! With Pangea’s AuthN service, you can embed authentication into any app in minutes. Starting from a simple username and password, you can scale up to numerous MFA options, domain & IP access lists, EULA acceptance, and more with just a few clicks. Check it out and let us know what you think 💭

https://twitter.com/pangeacyber/status/1713987669061951827?s=20

💻 WhoisXML API Partnership

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with WhoisXML API, enabling new use cases with Whois data in Pangea’s Domain Intel service, bringing even more value to developers! Use domain age, history, and origin information to help identify malicious domains used for phishing or other attacks, protect against domain-based attacks such as domain hijacking and domain spoofing, and get insights into the domain market. You can see the blog here.

https://twitter.com/pangeacyber/status/1718991922709369289?s=20

📁 File Scan now available!

The newly released File Scan service from Pangea puts world-class malware scanning capabilities at your fingertips. Whenever you are handling a file, there is always a chance that it is dangerous. Try File Scan today to protect everyone and everything in your app’s supply chain by using the best tools available ⚒️

Pango's Picks

🧑‍💻👾 Are Links on Reddit Posts Malicious? An Analysis of Top Subreddit Posts

Many posts on Reddit have links within the post’s content pointing to an external website, or document - Dev Advocate Pranav’s curiosity led him to explore - are all these links safe?

🏆 In case you missed it, we announced our Health & Wealth Hackathon winners

Check out our Securathon winners and the cool (and secure) apps that they built with Pangea APIs. We’re happy to see our products being successfully implemented into a variety of applications!

News & Event

Join Pangea’s Developer Advocate Vanessa Villa and members of our engineering team who will lead a hands-on Secure by Design workshop designed to demystify the process and equip you with the knowledge and skills to quickly code secure applications. We’ll start with the topic of authentication, and progress towards secure audit logs, monitoring traffic, redacting information, scanning files, and other key security services.

This first workshop of our Secure by Design series is intended for app developers. We’ll be doing some coding and you’ll get a hands-on understanding of:

📖Principles of secure design: Learn the fundamentals surrounding secure by design applications.

🧑‍💻Applying Secure by Design: Using Pangea, learn hands-on methods for Authentication and Intel Services to manage access to your app and understand who and where users are coming from. Get the intelligence you need to proactively deflect suspicious traffic.

💬Q&A and best practices sharing: Engage in an interactive Q&A session with our team and other workshop attendees.

Register Today! (Spots Limited)

OWASP DC

For those of you attending the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) conference in Washington DC on October 30th and 31st, catch us there! Our spooky Halloween-themed booth will have tricks, treats, and of course….. security!

GitHub Universe

On November 8th and 9th, Pangea will be sponsoring a demo pod at GitHub Universe in San Francisco CA. If you are attending, stop by our station to watch us demo our “Pangea GitHub Actions”. If you can’t make it in person be sure to check out our virtual booth.

See all news & events.

Community Updates

👤 Monthly Community Member Spotlight: Vishal Vats

Vishal Vats is the winner of Best Healthcare App and recipient of the “Most Valuable Feedback” award from our recent Health and Wealth Hackathon. He is currently a college student who loves to learn and play with various technological things. When Vishal notices a company developing something useful, it motivates him to do the same.

Thank you Vishal for your feedback, contributions and support across our community!

More from Pangea

September and October? More like Eventember and Rocktober! 🎸 A big shout out to the Pangea team members who showcased the magic of our APIs across several events. And, of course, a huge thank you to the event organizers, to all who made our presence felt, and to those who cheered us on:

IJS Conference - New York:

Dev Advocate, Pranav Shikarpur, giving away a lego set