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Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies

You're reading from  Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801810845
Pages 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Giuseppe Di Federico Giuseppe Di Federico
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Fabrizio Barcaroli Fabrizio Barcaroli
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Impact of Digital Transformation
2. Walkthrough of Digital Identity in the Enterprise 3. The Cloud Era and Identity 4. Part 2: OAuth Implementation and Patterns
5. OAuth 2.0 and OIDC 6. Authentication Flows 7. Exploring Identity Patterns 8. Part 3: Real-World Scenarios
9. Trends in API Authentication 10. Identity Providers in the Real World 11. Real-World Identity Provider – A Zoom-In on Azure Active Directory 12. Exploring Real-World Scenarios 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

API landscape complexity

To fully understand the complexity of API proliferation and the related OAuth implications, let’s start to enumerate what kind of API we can encounter today in an enterprise landscape.

The following table summarizes the most common use cases for APIs in an enterprise landscape:

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API

Description

Example

Application frontend API

An HTTP endpoint that belongs to the application and is designed to be consumed by the application’s user

Single-Page Application (SPA)

Application automation API

A publicly exposed HTTP endpoint that belongs to the application and is designed to be consumed by an automation service in a controlled way

Automatic processes need to query the application

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