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Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies
Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies

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

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Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies

Walkthrough of Digital Identity in the Enterprise

Business and the technology to support it are moving at a faster pace than ever before.

Digital transformation has disrupted the technology we used to deal with until recently. It is still occurring, and the evolution is not finished. The reason why this is happening can be summarized as follows: new technologies, trends, and tools supplied by the major cloud providers are helping companies to focus on business value rather than the surrounding complexity of an in-house data center.

Cloud and digital transformation cannot be seen anymore as the next step of information technology (IT) transformation; it is the present, and it is occurring right now. Many companies have already embraced this evolution and have transformed their data centers into cloud assets, and we need to expect most of the remaining companies’ assets to leave on-premises data centers soon.

In other words, most companies are in the process of reinventing themselves. They are revisiting how they produce software assets, they are caring more about time to market, and they are understanding how much this can be directly proportional to the success of the company.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Impacts of digital transformation on the market
  • Why it is important to think about an identity strategy, what items an enterprise should not underestimate, and what the challenges are
  • The importance of the UX and how it maps to the digital identity
  • Common technical protocols for identity in the enterprise

Digital transformation – the impact on the market

The implication of digital transformation on identity impacted both the enterprise and the consumer market.

But let’s take a step back and start with an overview of the two markets, how they differ, and their relationships with digital identities.

On one hand, we have the consumer market. The term consumer market, in this context, refers to the market that targets internet users. In other words, every time we consume a cloud service from a PC or a mobile (for example, Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive) or we hit a website, we are in the consumer market. The consumer market includes social networks (for example, Facebook), search engines (for example, Google or Bing), e-commerce web applications (for example, Amazon, Zalando, or eBay), and, in general, everything consumable by a general internet user. In the consumer market, the service targets us, we represent the final user, and, most importantly, we represent the source of revenue. This revenue may come from our money, our data, (which can include both personal information and/or tracking and collecting our behavior on the web), or anything else that can be profitable.

From a very high-level standpoint, the typical objectives that service has on the consumer market are as follows:

  • Increase traffic
  • Encourage the users to access the service as much as possible
  • Get money:
    • From advertising, if the business model of the application is ad-based
    • Increase the transformation rate in e-commerce applications
    • Any other profitable revenue that comes from the product service model

On the other hand, we have the enterprise market, a market where, historically, giants such as Microsoft, VMware, HP, Cisco, Oracle, and IBM competed to sell products to install and consume on top of servers in the customer’s data center. These tech giants targeted the enterprise market by offering products to the IT department of a company. The IT department of an enterprise company, in turn, needed to create services on top of these products to be consumed by the end business. The result is that these tech giants have always been far from the end business; they have always been focused on boosting the internal IT departments of enterprises. This was the enterprise market that we knew until a few years ago.

The advent of the cloud in enterprises took this paradigm a step further. Today, some of these tech giants, such as Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM, have become enterprise cloud providers. They sell Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud services to serve their enterprise customers that don’t need a private data center anymore. Enterprise customers take advantage of cloud services by fueling external business and at the same time boosting internal employees’ productivity. This has an important implication: offloading the IT complexity and data center management outside the enterprise by delegating it to the cloud providers and letting themselves focus more on their core business rather than on IT tasks and data center management.

Thanks to the enterprise cloud, which provides the capabilities of the past with less complexity and, most importantly, the new capabilities of the next generation, the next wave of the enterprise market is being created. Companies are constantly looking for new ways to improve their business with technology. The cloud market is young, and the efforts by the IT giants to onboard new customers (enterprises) at this stage to guarantee long-term revenue in the upcoming years are a top priority for them.

The portfolio of services that cloud providers provide to enterprises is huge. As anticipated, services span from simple servers (virtual machines) to web servers, to container hosting, storage, backup as a service, and much more. Identity providers are another important service offered to enterprises, and this is the core topic of this book.

In the context of digital identities, if we try to compare the consumer market with the enterprise, we will notice something. In the enterprise market, unlike the consumer market, there is a high level of complexity. The reason for that is that companies are supposed to manage their identity services for their employee. Identity, on the other hand, is consumed in the consumer market and managed by identity providers, such as Facebook or Google, just to provide two examples.

This concept has several implications. To properly use identity services, we need an enterprise-grade identity strategy that can simplify the complexity of this wide and critical topic.

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  • Learn all you need to know about different identity patterns and implementing them in real-world scenarios
  • Handle multi-IDP-related common situations no matter how big your organization
  • Gain practical insights into OAuth implementation patterns and flows

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Identity is paramount for every architecture design, making it crucial for enterprise and solutions architects to understand the benefits and pitfalls of implementing identity patterns. However, information on cloud identity patterns is generally scattered across different sources and rarely approached from an architect’s perspective, and this is what Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies aims to solve, empowering solutions architects to take an active part in implementing identity solutions. 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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for cloud security engineers and identity experts. Enterprise architects, tech leads, developers, and anyone who wants to learn how to use identity patterns and strategies to build identity models for the modern cloud era will find this book useful. This book covers many DevOps and Agile principles; although not a pre-requisite, familiarity with these topics would be helpful.

What you will learn

  • Understand the evolution of identity in the enterprise
  • Discover basic to advanced OAuth patterns and implementations
  • Find out how OAuth standards are usually adopted in the enterprise
  • Explore proven solutions for modern identity challenges
  • Use Azure AD for implementing identity solutions
  • Comprehend how company structure and strategies influence design decisions

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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
Part 1: Impact of Digital Transformation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Walkthrough of Digital Identity in the Enterprise Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Cloud Era and Identity Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: OAuth Implementation and Patterns Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
OAuth 2.0 and OIDC Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Authentication Flows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploring Identity Patterns Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Real-World Scenarios Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Trends in API Authentication Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Identity Providers in the Real World Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Real-World Identity Provider – A Zoom-In on Azure Active Directory Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploring Real-World Scenarios Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This book covers OAuth and OIDC design patterns, with good diagrams.The chapter of most importance (to me), was the chapter that detailed the various flows, including the Client Credentials flow, (server to server), used for API's.This book is a rare find.
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