This paper focuses on the salient security implications of the inherent statelessness that characterises Representational state Transfer (REST) APIs. The ever rising popularity of the REST architecture has resulted in its widespread application in the development and deployment of web services for implementing efficient enterprise solutions. REST techniques enable applications to share resources of a variety of nature seamlessly over the web thus making it possible to provide integration and interoperability. The REST API technique does not require storage of complex states in memory and is also characterised by simple logical structures. It is this inherent simplicity that leads to issues with security that will be covered in this paper.

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