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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

You're reading from   Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications Harness the power of Keycloak, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0 to secure applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616444
Length 350 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Stian Thorgersen Stian Thorgersen
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Pedro Igor Silva Pedro Igor Silva
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Keycloak 2. Securing Your First Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Brief Introduction to Standards 4. Authenticating Users with OpenID Connect 5. Authorizing Access with OAuth 2.0 6. Securing Different Application Types 7. Integrating Applications with Keycloak 8. Authorization Strategies 9. Configuring Keycloak for Production 10. Managing Users 11. Authenticating Users 12. Managing Tokens and Sessions 13. Extending Keycloak 14. Securing Keycloak and Applications 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Using ABAC

When users authenticate through Keycloak, tokens issued by the server contain important information about the authentication context. Tokens contain information about the authenticated user and the client to which tokens were issued, as well as any other information that can be gathered during the authentication process. With that in mind, any information carried by a token can be used to authorize access to your applications. They are just claims mapped to tokens.

ABAC involves using the different attributes associated with an identity (represented by a token), as well as information about the authentication context, to enforce access to resources. It is probably the most flexible access control mechanism you can choose, with natural support for fine-grained authorization. Together with token-based authorization, applications using Keycloak can easily enable ABAC to protect their resources.

Token-based authorization is based on introspecting tokens and using the...

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