Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies

This is a guide for cloud identity experts who want to understand the principles to design and implement an identity strategy that fits their organization. As you progress through this book, you'll learn how cloud evolution affected identity strategy within the enterprise.

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Get to grips with identity patterns and design a structured enterprise identity model for cloud applications

Key Features

Learn all you need to know about different identity patterns and implementing them in real-world scenarios
Handle multi-IDP-related common situations no matter how big your organization
Gain practical insights into OAuth implementation patterns and flows

Book DescriptionIdentity is paramount for every architecture design, making it crucial for enterprise and solutions architects to understand the benefits and pitfalls of implementing identity patterns. However, information on cloud identity patterns is generally scattered across different sources and rarely approached from an architect's perspective, and this is what Cloud Identity Patterns and Strategies aims to solve, empowering solutions architects to take an active part in implementing identity solutions.

Throughout this book, you'll cover various theoretical topics along with practical examples that follow the implementation of a standard de facto identity provider (IdP) in an enterprise, such as Azure Active Directory. As you progress through the chapters, you'll explore the different factors that contribute to an enterprise's current status quo around identities and harness modern authentication approaches to meet specific requirements of an enterprise. You'll also be able to make sense of how modern application designs are impacted by the company's choices and move on to recognize how a healthy organization tackles identity and critical tasks that the development teams pivot on.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to breeze through creating portable, robust, and reliable applications that can interact with each other.

What you will learn

Understand the evolution of identity in the enterprise
Discover basic to advanced OAuth patterns and implementations
Find out how OAuth standards are usually adopted in the enterprise
Explore proven solutions for modern identity challenges
Use Azure AD for implementing identity solutions
Comprehend how company structure and strategies influence design decisions

Who this book is forThis book is for cloud security engineers and identity experts. Enterprise architects, tech leads, developers, and anyone who wants to learn how to use identity patterns and strategies to build identity models for the modern cloud era will find this book useful. This book covers many DevOps and Agile principles; although not a pre-requisite, familiarity with these topics would be helpful.