Chapter 9: Securing ASP.NET Core
Correctly securing your APIs is essential. In this chapter, we will learn how to secure an ASP.NET Core 5 Web API application because it is also the responsibility of the developer, who is building the backend application to protect the APIs. There are two available frameworks in .NET that you can use to secure your application, and there are also cloud identity providers.
We will tackle the following topics:
- Understanding ASP.NET Core Identity
- Introducing IdentityServer4
- Getting to know customer identity and access management (CIAM)
- Authenticating using JWT