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[[_service_protection_api]]
= Protection API
The Protection API provides a UMA-compliant set of endpoints providing:
* *Resource Management*
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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 Management*
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In the UMA protocol, resource servers access this endpoint to create permission tickets. {project_name} also provides
endpoints to manage the state of permissions and query permissions.
* *Policy API*
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{project_name} leverages the UMA Protection API to allow resource servers to manage permissions for their users. In addition
to the Resource and Permission APIs, {project_name} provides a Policy API from where permissions can be set to resources by resource
servers on behalf of their users.
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*.