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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

Chapter 4: The Basics and Evolution of Authentication

In the previous chapter, we covered the different application types that can use Azure AD for authentication and looked at user consent. We covered public client and confidential client applications, how application sign-in flows work and the different application types, such as web apps and APIs, deamon apps, and more. Next, we built a web app that authenticates users using Azure AD. Finally, we covered how users consent to applications and looked at publisher verification.

In this chapter, we are going to take a step back and look at the basics and evolution of authentication. This chapter will not contain code samples; instead, it will look at how authentication has evolved into the modern authentication protocols that we are using right now in our applications.

We will start this chapter by explaining how identity protocols evolved. After that, we will look at the difference between authentication and authorization. Then...