[[_service_protection_api]]
=== Protection API

The Protection API provides a UMA-compliant set of endpoints providing:

* *Resource Registration*
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With this endpoint, resource servers can manage their resources remotely and enable <<_enforcer_overview, policy enforcers>> to query the server for the resources that need protection.

* *Permission Registration*
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In the UMA protocol, resource servers access this endpoint, which issues permission tickets.

An important requirement for this API is that _only_ resource servers are allowed to access its endpoints using a special OAuth2 access token called a protection API token (PAT).
In UMA, a PAT is a token with the scope *uma_protection*.