Bearer token security
Security is one of the fundamental parts of application development that we need to get right. Releasing software that does not control user access and permissions can have adverse side effects in the long run and allow for the exploitation of our application.
Using ASP.NET Core, we have access to an authentication library called Identity Core, which supports several authentication methods and allows us to easily integrate authentication into our application and supporting database. It has optimized implementations for the various authentication methods and authorization rules we implement in web applications and allows us to easily protect certain parts of our application.
Typically, we use authentication to identify the user attempting to gain access to our system. This usually requires the user to input a username and a password. If their information can be validated, we can check what they are authorized to do and then create a session using their basic...
