Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies

What’s inside

• All you need to know about different identity patterns and implementing them in real-world scenarios
• Techniques to handle multi-IDP-related common situations no matter how big your organization
• Practical insights into OAuth implementation patterns and flows

You'll get the most out of this book if

• You're a cloud security engineer or an identity expert
• You’re an enterprise architect, tech lead, developer, or anyone else who wants to learn how to use identity patterns and strategies to build identity models for the modern cloud era
• You have some familiarity with DevOps and Agile principles, although this is not a pre-requisite

What your journey will look like

Throughout this book, you'll cover various theoretical topics along with practical examples that follow the implementation of a standard de facto identity provider (IdP) in an enterprise, such as Azure Active Directory.

As you progress through the chapters, you'll explore the different factors that contribute to an enterprise's current status quo around identities and harness modern authentication approaches to meet specific requirements of an enterprise.

You'll also be able to make sense of how modern application designs are impacted by the company's choices and move on to recognize how a healthy organization tackles identity and critical tasks that the development teams pivot on.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to breeze through creating portable, robust, and reliable applications that can interact with each other.

Some of the things you'll learn in this book

• The evolution of identity in the enterprise
• Basic to advanced OAuth patterns and implementations
• How OAuth standards are usually adopted in the enterprise
• Proven solutions for modern identity challenges
• How to use Azure AD for implementing identity solutions
• How company structure and strategies influence design decisions

Table of Contents

1. Walkthrough of Digital Identity in the Enterprise
2. The Cloud Era and Identity
3. OAuth 2.0 and OIDC
4. Authentication Flows
5. Exploring Identity Patterns
6. Trends in API Authentication
7. Identity Providers in the Real World
8. Real-World Identity Provider – A Zoom-In on Azure Active Directory
9. Exploring Real-World Scenarios