Permissions (API)
The specific actions an API key or OAuth token is authorised to perform read-only, write, delete, admin. Best practice: grant automation credentials only the minimum permissions required. An invoice automation should never have permission to delete contacts.
Expert insight
API permissions granted more broadly than a workflow actually needs (full read-write access when the workflow only ever reads data) increase the damage a leaked credential or a workflow bug can cause, scoping API permissions to the minimum the workflow genuinely requires limits the blast radius of anything going wrong.
How PURIST uses this
This concept is built into every automation we deploy.
When PURIST builds your automation, Permissions (API) is not an optional consideration it is part of the production standard. Our workflows are tested against edge cases, monitored 24/7, and built to handle what happens when things don't go as expected.
Every client workflow we deploy in the Security category is designed with this principle in mind from day one not added as an afterthought.
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