It’s less than a year until Microsoft turns off Basic Authentication for its Exchange Web Services (EWS). While new apps like Office 365 Pro Plus use modern authentication techniques, if you ...

GUEST OPINION: The use of Basic Authentication over the internet is as old as the basic standard for the world wide web. Its use was outlined in May 1996 as part of the standard for version 1.0 of ...

Take advantage of API key authentication to control the access of applications and services to your Web APIs in ASP.NET Core.

Secure Web API using basic authentication Basic authentication sends the user’s credentials in plaint text over the wire. If you were to use basic authentication, you should use your Web API ...

Instead of using Exchange Web Services, Microsoft is recommending that organizations switch to the Microsoft Graph to access Exchange Online data. They also should switch to using OAuth 2.0 for ...

They also should switch to using OAuth 2.0 for Exchange Online authentications in their applications, which is a "more secure and reliable" means of accessing data than Basic Authentication, according ...

Microsoft announced earlier this month that it's planning to deprecate the Exchange Web Services API for Office 365 users.