Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies: Design enterprise cloud identity models with OAuth 2.0 and Azure Active Directory

Get to grips with identity patterns and design a structured enterprise identity model for cloud applications

What’s inside
All you need to know about different identity patterns and implementing them in real-world scenarios
Techniques to handle multi-IDP-related common situations no matter how big your organization
Practical insights into OAuth implementation patterns and flows
You'll get the most out of this book if
You're a cloud security engineer or an identity expert
You’re an enterprise architect, tech lead, developer, or anyone else who wants to learn how to use identity patterns and strategies to build identity models for the modern cloud era
You have some familiarity with DevOps and Agile principles, although this is not a pre-requisite
What your journey will look like
Throughout this book, you'll cover various theoretical topics along with practical examples that follow the implementation of a standard de facto identity provider (IdP) in an enterprise, such as Azure Active Directory.

As you progress through the chapters, you'll explore the different factors that contribute to an enterprise's current status quo around identities and harness modern authentication approaches to meet specific requirements of an enterprise.

You'll also be able to make sense of how modern application designs are impacted by the company's choices and move on to recognize how a healthy organization tackles identity and critical tasks that the development teams pivot on.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to breeze through creating portable, robust, and reliable applications that can interact with each other.

Some of the things you'll learn in this book
The evolution of identity in the enterprise
Basic to advanced OAuth patterns and implementations
How OAuth standards are usually adopted in the enterprise
Proven solutions for modern identity challenges
How to use Azure AD for implementing identity solutions
How company structure and strategies influence design decisions
Table of Contents
Walkthrough of Digital Identity in the Enterprise
The Cloud Era and Identity
OAuth 2.0 and OIDC
Authentication Flows
Exploring Identity Patterns
Trends in API Authentication
Identity Providers in the Real World
Real-World Identity Provider – A Zoom-In on Azure Active Directory
Exploring Real-World Scenarios