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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

By : Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva
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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

By: Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva

Overview of this book

Implementing authentication and authorization for applications can be a daunting experience, often leaving them exposed to security vulnerabilities. Keycloak is an open-source solution for identity management and access management for modern applications, which can make a world of difference if you learn how to use it. Keycloak, helping you get started with using it and securing your applications. Complete with hands-on tutorials, best practices, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to secure a sample application and then move on to securing different application types. As you progress, you will understand how to configure and manage Keycloak as well as how to leverage some of its more advanced capabilities. Finally, you'll gain insights into securely using Keycloak in production. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to install and manage Keycloak as well as how to secure new and existing applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Keycloak
4
Section 2: Securing Applications with Keycloak
11
Section 3: Configuring and Managing Keycloak
17
Section 4: Security Considerations

Chapter 11: Authenticating Users

In the previous chapters, you learned how to manage users. You also walked through examples that involved users authenticating in Keycloak.

By now, you should be aware of how easy it is to set up Keycloak to promptly authenticate your users, but there is much more to authentication than just using a login page and asking users for passwords.

In this chapter, we are going to take a closer look at how authentication works, as well as the different authentication methods you can use to authenticate users. You will also be presented with more details about how password-based authentication works and how Keycloak can be used as a strong authentication system by leveraging two-factor authentication (2FA) and multi-factor authentication (MFA). For that, you will learn about the different types of credentials you can choose from to authenticate users and how they work together to increase the overall security of your system.

In this chapter, we will...