MEF 128.1 LSO API Security Profile

2024 Apr

Summary:

This document defines the security profile, security approaches and security architecture for LSO API security using OAuth2 and OIDC within either a centralized or federated identity provider framework. This document applies to all current and future LSO APIs.

Amends: MEF 128

Primary Resource for: APIs

Product Portfolio: APIs

Standard Type: MEF Service Lifecycle

The intended audience of this document is senior IT security professionals, in particular identity and security architects and compliance specialists implementing LSO APIs. This document is not a general reference on API security, but an LSO API-specific standard. 

The document first defines the LSO API security architecture and conformance requirements to that architecture. The standard then defines the following security components: 

  • JWT Best Practices for LSO API Security
  • JWKS Endpoints for cryptographic signatures and their verifications
  • Structure and conformance requirements for JWSs and JWEs
  • LSO API Payload Authenticity

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