Implementing API Security with Auth0

Design and Build Great Web APIs — by Mike Amundsen (77 / 127)

👈 Understanding Security Basics | TOC | Supporting Machine-to-Machine Security 👉

We’re going to use the Auth0 online platform for our API security. We’ll need to log in (or sign up) at the website, define our API in the Auth0 system, and collect key authentication parameters that we’ll need in order to access the secured API (for example, our access token). We’ll also learn how to validate access tokens with the JWT.io website.[86]