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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 protocols to secure applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562493
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pedro Igor Silva Pedro Igor Silva
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Stian Thorgersen Stian Thorgersen
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Keycloak
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Keycloak FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Securing Your First Application 4. Section 2: Securing Applications with Keycloak
5. Chapter 3: Brief Introduction to Standards 6. Chapter 4: Authenticating Users with OpenID Connect 7. Chapter 5: Authorizing Access with OAuth 2.0 8. Chapter 6: Securing Different Application Types 9. Chapter 7: Integrating Applications with Keycloak 10. Chapter 8: Authorization Strategies 11. Section 3: Configuring and Managing Keycloak
12. Chapter 9: Configuring Keycloak for Production 13. Chapter 10: Managing Users 14. Chapter 11: Authenticating Users 15. Chapter 12: Managing Tokens and Sessions 16. Chapter 13: Extending Keycloak 17. Section 4: Security Considerations
18. Chapter 14: Securing Keycloak and Applications 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about several important aspects of deploying Keycloak securely into production. You learned how important it is to secure the database that's used by Keycloak, as well as communication between nodes. You also learned how important it is to protect user accounts from being compromised, as well as how important it is to keep information about your users secure. Finally, you got some insight into what it means to secure an application by focusing on web applications, as well as how to utilize OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect to secure your applications.

You should now have a good understanding of how to securely run Keycloak in production, as well as an idea of where you can start learning more about securing your applications.

This is the final chapter of this book. We hope you have enjoyed this book and have gained a good understanding of Keycloak and how you can utilize it to help secure your applications. While this book has not covered...

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