Secure Your Application with OpenId Connect
Anthony Giretti · Apress eBooks · 2022
I can’t finish this book without talking to you about safety. Security is essential in an application, by which I mean that almost all applications need a mechanism to identify the user attempting to perform actions on your application. This is called authentication, which should not be confused with authorization, a mechanism allowing privileges to be given to an authenticated user—that is, allowing the user to perform specific actions that other users will not achieve. In this chapter, you will learn how to do the following: