In today's world of increasing digital crime and internet fraud, all modern web applications require the implementation of strong security mechanisms for preventing attacks and user identity usurpation.
Until now, we have concentrated on understanding how to build efficient ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications, without thinking about user authentication, user authorization, or data protection at all, but since the Tic-Tac-Toe application is getting more and more sophisticated, we will have to address security issues before finally deploying it to the public.
Building a web application and not thinking about security would be a big failing and could bring down even the greatest and most famous websites. In the case of security breaches and personal data theft, the negative reputation and user confidence impacts could be tremendous, and nobody would want to work with those applications and—more troublesome—companies anymore.
This is a topic that...