How to secure Django Rest API

Question

I created custom survey with React and I want to send data once survey is complete to Drip (user managing platform) https://developer.drip.com/

I can't connect website with Drip API directly - it'll expose API Key. I decided to use Python Django with REST as proxy. My question - what's possible threats and how can I secure my Backend?

Thanks!

Answer 1

As per drip documentation - you could use:

OAuth 2 authentication (for public integrations)

this won't expose your API Key

There are a lot of materials on Google, how to do OAuth2 with React.

If you prefer to go with the proxy through Django with REST - thenhere you can find some informations