Securing an application means not allowing unknown and unauthorized entities to access the application. It also means that communication with the application is secure and not tempered with.
This includes the following:
- Authentication: Authentication refers to establishing the identity of a user and ensuring that the given identity can access the application or service. Authentication is performed in Azure using open connect, also known as ConnectID.
- Authorization: Authorization refers to allowing and establishing permissions that an identity can perform within the application or service. Authorization is performed in Azure using oAuth technology.
- Confidentiality: It refers to that communication between the user and application is secure. The payload exchange between entities is encrypted such that it will make sense only to the sender and receiver, but not otherwise...
