With the rise of APIs, API security demands more focus than ever. Authentication determines the client's identity who is sending the request and ensures that your API is properly secured. This guide will highlight some good practices of API Authentication.
Authentication and authorization are two different features that often play a crucial role in your application’s security, and you implement them using APIs. Let's take a look at how both are different from each other.
You often need to add a user authentication system as a feature in your app, and REST API also acts as a bridge for this. Let's take a look at different REST API authentication methods.
