Black Duck Binary Analysis: How to Enable API Key Authentication

Black Duck Binary Analysis (BDBA) will be deprecating the basic authentication option for API access in 2020.09 release in the hosted platform. This tutorial covers the API key authentication process that replaces the less secure basic authentication option when using BDBA API.

Environment:
Product: Black Duck Binary Analysis
Version: 2020.03 or newer
Users: Regular User, Administrator, Group Manager
Platform: Hosted

Keywords: BDBA, API, API Key, Basic Authentication, Whitelisting, Deprecate, Command Line