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Security Scorecard Authentication Guide

How to authenticate SecurityScorecard for use with Tines Stories.

Written by Daniel Stoeski

SecurityScorecard uses data from publicly available commercial and open-source feeds across the internet to get an “outside-in, hacker perspective of a company’s cybersecurity posture.” A score is a moment-in-time capture of the security profile of a company.

First, get a SecurityScorecard API key

  1. Login to your SecurityScorecard account at https://platform.securityscorecard.io/#/start

  2. Click on the menu in the top right and select "My Settings"
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  3. Select "API" and then click on "Generate New API Token"
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  4. Read the warning message and click "Confirm"
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  5. Copy your API token
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Lastly, create a SecurityScorecard credential in Tines Stories

  1. Login to your Tines Stories tenant

  2. Navigate to the team that will be using the API and click "Credential"

  3. Click "+ New Credential" and select "Text"

  4. Input the values for the SecurityScorecard credential

    1. Name: SecurityScorecard

    2. Description: Optional

    3. Value: Your API token

  5. Optional

    1. Domains: Ensure this credential can only be used when making HTTP requests to specific domains.

    2. Access: What other teams can also use the API

  6. Click "Save"

For more on creating credentials in Tines Stories, click here.

You can find a selection of SecurityScorecard stories in the story library

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