REST API Security for Banking: Beyond the Bearer Token

Bearer tokens are the unpriced risk in most bank API estates. A banking lens on REST API security: BOLA, sender-constrained tokens, the regulatory map and an honest scorecard.

Bearer tokens are the unpriced risk in most bank API estates. A banking lens on REST API security: BOLA, sender-constrained tokens, the regulatory map and an honest scorecard.

Web services explained from scratch — what they are, the main types (SOAP, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, messaging), how authentication and authorisation secure them, and why banking cannot run without them.