Okta Series - Mobile Security Dev, a Database and Authentication POV

This episode of The New Stack Makers series with Okta, on all topics related to development and security at scale, features the development requirements for securing mobile apps. They are explored from two points of view: the database and authentication.

Guests Ian Ward, senior product manager, mobile, for MongoDB discusses synchronizing mobile data with backend databases and his related work on Realm, a mobile database, and Aaron Parecki, senior security architect, for Okta, describes authentication, and OAuth, for which he is the spec editor and member of the OAuth working group. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack hosts with co-host Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy at API security firm at Okta.