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Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies

You're reading from   Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies Design enterprise cloud identity models with OAuth 2.0 and Azure Active Directory

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801810845
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giuseppe Di Federico Giuseppe Di Federico
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Fabrizio Barcaroli Fabrizio Barcaroli
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Impact of Digital Transformation
2. Walkthrough of Digital Identity in the Enterprise FREE CHAPTER 3. The Cloud Era and Identity 4. Part 2: OAuth Implementation and Patterns
5. OAuth 2.0 and OIDC 6. Authentication Flows 7. Exploring Identity Patterns 8. Part 3: Real-World Scenarios
9. Trends in API Authentication 10. Identity Providers in the Real World 11. Real-World Identity Provider – A Zoom-In on Azure Active Directory 12. Exploring Real-World Scenarios 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

The application automation API

The application automation API is designed to enable the automatic service to retrieve information from applications. One example could be an insurance portal, where customers (users) subscribe to a specific insurance policy by using the insurance website, developed as a SPA, and following the flow described in the previous chapter. At the end of the day, an automatic process calls the application automation API to retrieve all the insurance contracts finalized during the day by the customers for forecasting or reporting purposes. This specific example is also applicable to the partner automation API, where a partner of the insurance company needs to use an API to perform backend activities, retrieve data, or update contract clauses.

From a technical perspective, the partner automation API and application automation API usually use the same authentication flow due to a matching requirement: an automated service needs to be authenticated. What could...

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