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Azure Active Directory for Secure Application Development

By : Sjoukje Zaal
Book Image

Azure Active Directory for Secure Application Development

By: Sjoukje Zaal

Overview of this book

Azure Active Directory for Secure Application Development is your one-stop shop for learning how to develop secure applications using modern authentication techniques with Microsoft Azure AD. Whether you’re working with single-tenant, multi-tenant, or line-of-business applications, this book contains everything you need to secure them. The book wastes no time in diving into the practicalities of Azure AD. Right from the start, you’ll be setting up tenants, adding users, and registering your first application in Azure AD. The balance between grasping and applying theory is maintained as you move from the intermediate to the advanced: from the basics of OAuth to getting your hands dirty with building applications and registering them in Azure AD. Want to pin down the Microsoft Graph, Azure AD B2C, or authentication protocol best practices? We’ve got you covered. The full range of Azure AD functionality from a developer perspective is here for you to explore with confidence. By the end of this secure app development book, you’ll have developed the skill set that so many organizations are clamoring for. Security is mission-critical, and after reading this book, you will be too.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with the Microsoft Identity Platform
5
Part 2: Authentication and Protocols
9
Part 3: Azure AD B2C

Introducing the Azure AD application model

The Azure AD application model is used for signing in users inside of Microsoft identity. You can also use the Azure AD application model to delegate the sign-in process to additional identity providers and let them be responsible for this. Adding additional identity providers is a feature that is part of Azure AD B2C.

For an identity provider to know that a user has access to a particular app, the user or the application needs to be registered with the identity provider. Whether it is a web or a mobile application, a web API, or any other application, it needs to be registered to be able to perform identity and access management. By registering the application, you establish a trust relationship between your application and the identity provider, such as the Microsoft identity platform.

As well as signing in users to your application, registering the app with the Microsoft identity platform allows you the following:

  • It lets...