Best practices

Cybersecurity

Securing API keys, wallets, webhooks, and production infrastructure

High-value targets

Fintech platforms protect credentials that move money and data: tenant API keys, webhook endpoints, treasury wallets, and authentication secrets. Compromise at any layer can enable fund loss or data breach at scale—across every asset and corridor on the network.

Key practices

AssetPractice
Treasury walletsHardware-backed or multi-party controls; never expose signing material
API keysRotate regularly; separate sandbox and production
WebhooksVerify signatures on Echo payloads before acting
Customer dataKeep PII off public ledgers; restrict access by role

Treat secret comparison and storage as first-class engineering concerns—not afterthoughts.

Application security

  • Validate all inputs on mutating endpoints
  • Use idempotency so retries cannot double-spend
  • Log structured events without PII or key material
  • Apply standard HTTP hardening (headers, CORS allowlists)

Supply chain and ops

Pin dependencies, scan CI for leaked environment files, and restrict production access via SSO and break-glass procedures. Monitor platform Health signals and alert on abnormal payment volume.

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