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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

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

Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

4.5 (15)
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)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Keycloak
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Section 2: Securing Applications with Keycloak
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Section 3: Configuring and Managing Keycloak
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Section 4: Security Considerations

Validating access tokens

You have two choices to validate an access token, either by invoking the token introspection endpoint provided by Keycloak, or by directly verifying the token.

Using the token introspection endpoint is the simplest approach, and it also makes your applications less tied to Keycloak being the authorization server. OAuth 2.0 does not define a standard format for access tokens and these should be considered opaque to the application. Instead, it defines a standard token introspection endpoint that can be used to query the authorization server for the state of a token as well as claims associated with the token. This also enables tokens to not be self-contained, meaning that not all relevant information about the token is encoded into the token, but rather the token only serves as a reference to the information.

One downside of using the token introspection endpoint is that it introduces extra latency in processing the request as well as additional load...

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