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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616444
Pages 350 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Stian Thorgersen Stian Thorgersen
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Pedro Igor Silva Pedro Igor Silva
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Keycloak 2. Securing Your First Application 3. Brief Introduction to Standards 4. Authenticating Users with OpenID Connect 5. Authorizing Access with OAuth 2.0 6. Securing Different Application Types 7. Integrating Applications with Keycloak 8. Authorization Strategies 9. Configuring Keycloak for Production 10. Managing Users 11. Authenticating Users 12. Managing Tokens and Sessions 13. Extending Keycloak 14. Securing Keycloak and Applications 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about several important aspects of deploying Keycloak securely into production. You learned how important it is to secure the database that’s used by Keycloak, as well as communication between nodes. You also learned how important it is to protect user accounts from being compromised, as well as how important it is to keep information about your users secure. Finally, you got some insight into what it means to secure an application by focusing on web applications, as well as how to utilize OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect to secure your applications.

You should now have a good understanding of how to securely run Keycloak in production, as well as an idea of where you can start learning more about securing your applications.

This is the final chapter of this book. We hope you have enjoyed this book and have gained a good understanding of Keycloak and how you can utilize it to help secure your applications. While this book has not covered...

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