basic authentication is another simple (but not very secure) method of authenticating to external systems servicely can securely store and manage external credentials in a systemapioutboundtoken record and relay the credentials to the integrating application as required using from the scripting environment to use the systemapioutboundtoken from the scripting environment, simply call the ‘ apitokenauth ' method of any of the outbound http methods the basic authentication credentials will be applied before the message is sent