July Newsletter - Hackathon Winners

The winners of the Pangea Securathon hackathon have been announced after a two-month competition with nearly 350 participants and 30 qualified submissions. Participants competed by creating new applications using Pangea's APIs. The first-place winner, ZeroPay, impressed the judging panel by showcasing a Pangea-built application for financial services. ZeroPay is a digital payment platform that allows users to make payments, send money, and perform various financial transactions using their smartphones or other compatible devices. ZeroPay securely stores the user’s PIN via Pangea’s Vault Service, enabling users to make purchases online, in physical stores, and transfer money to other individuals.

Besides solving a vital problem in the financial services space, ZeroPay used the broadest set of Pangea services - a total of six!

• AuthN - used for user registration and authentication

• Redact - used for masking credit card numbers

• Vault - used for secret and cryptographic key storage

• Secure Audit Log - used for logging of user activities

• IP Intel - used for identifying infected devices or malicious users

• User Intel - used for checking for breached user accounts

We had so many additional submissions; you can view them in our Pangea Community Projects playlist on YouTube. You can also read more about our winners from our CEO Oliver and hackathon judge here.

Product Updates

Secure Audit Log Custom Schema - We’ve added the ability to create a custom schema for the Secure Audit Log service. These new features allow users to customize audit logs to their specific use cases by adding and removing fields, adding descriptions, and changing the field data type. Watch the video walkthrough.

Redact with Hashing - Introducing Redact API's latest feature: Generate a hash from your redacted text with a unique salt for secure pattern recognition in redacted strings. The salt is stored securely in our Vault service. This removes the possibility of any data leaks in PII during a data breach. Put simply, employing hashing for redaction safeguards sensitive user data and maintains the flexibility of conducting seamless queries within applications.

Secure Audit Log Multi Config Support - Secure Audit Log just got an upgrade! Now, you can manage multiple configurations within the same Pangea project. When you run multiple configurations of Secure Audit Log, remember to specify a config ID in the input parameters of any Secure Audit Log API call (SDKs, REST APIs, or documentation). No need for the config ID if you have only one config.

SDK v2 - Our SDKs have been updated to v2. These API changes were necessary to support the Custom Schemas feature in the Secure Audit Log, along with other minor changes that can all be viewed in the change logs.

Change Log - To keep up with all of the changes and updates on the platform, visit our change log.

Pangea's Equator

How Codex Health accelerated their path to HIPAA compliance with Pangea

Codex prioritizes security and privacy in its healthcare solutions. They chose Pangea's Secure Audit Log service for tamperproof audit logging because it was quick, easy, and cost-effective. The Codex engineering team highlights the service's seamless integration and native language support, as well as the collaboration with the Pangea team. Read more.

Pangea News Network: Secure Audit Log

Breaking news on the “Heartbeat” of Applications. In this first episode of the Pangea News Network (PNN), reporter Antonio Alvirus interviews cybersecurity expert Bob about lost friends, tigers, and mysterious babies.

Events

For those attending the International JavaScript Conference in New York, Grace will deliver her developer dance keynote presentation on September 27th. Additionally, we have a great session led by Michael, our Sr. Partner Manager/Integrations, focusing on securing personally identifiable information (PII). You can register here.

Additionally, we are honored to be among the prestigious 2023 CSO50 Award Winners. Read more!

For all other events, visit our news and event page.

That’s it for July!

We’re celebrating our community members, and this past month we highlighted Verlaine Muhungu in our very first Community Spotlight. Verlaine is a devoted learner. He has been in the IT space for over nine years and greatly respects diversity in tech. He also enjoys learning new technologies, focusing on networking, security, and APIs. We’re so thankful for his support. If you haven’t already joined our Slack community, you can here!

Some exciting news, our Redact API launched on Product Hunt, and it landed #3 in the fintech category. Check it out!

Visit our documentation for more starter guides and to learn how to secure your next application using Pangea Follow us on Twitter and join our community Slack channel. We have a team of developers ready to help support your next project and answer any questions you have.