FFIEC IT Examination Handbook
Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations booklet (June 2021) – FFIEC IT Examination Handbook

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook AIO-V.C.2(c): V.C.2(c) Application Programming Interfaces (Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations)

Management assesses and implements the security needs of APIs to prevent exposure of sensitive information: authorisation, authentication and encryption, API security tools and gateways controlling requests and responses, sensitive data filtering, limits on the size and number of resources requested, checkpoints for information leaving the network and logging and monitoring, with controls such as HTTPS, password hashing, keeping keys, tokens and IDs out of website addresses, standard authorisation protocols, client- and server-side validation, time stamping, rate limiting and traffic monitoring.

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