REST API Authentication | CCNA 200-301 Day 61 (part 2)

hi from Tokyo Japan and welcome to Jeremy's it lab in this video we're going to cover rest API authentication we've already covered the basics of rest apis but Cisco recently added authentication to the list of things you need to know about rest for the CCNA exam apis give access to an application and its data so security should always

be a major concern when designing and using apis in this video we'll examine some common methods of rest API authentication but before we get started let me take a minute to shill my books acing the CCNA exam volumes 1 and two these books are up toate covering everything you need for the latest

version of the exam uh rest API authentication for example is covered in chapter 23 of volume 2 I highly recommend using books in combination with the video course and if you want my books you can get them at the link on the screen now or on Amazon now let's get started so what are we going to

cover in this video first I'll introduce the concept of rest API authentication in general including why it's so important then for the rest of the video we'll cover four common types of rest authentication basic authentication Bearer authentication API key authentication and finally ooth 2.0 we'll outline how each of these methods works and their advantages and dis dis

advantages so that's the plan for today now let's learn about rest API authentication hopefully you already know this definition from the security section of the course but authentication is the process of validating the identity of a user or system to ensure legitimate access to resources in the case of an API the resource is the