Two-Factor Authentication is an additional security layer used to address the vulnerabilities of a standard password-only approach. All popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or DropBox recommend their users to enable the feature and prevent unauthorized access to their… Read More ›
Security
ASP.NET Core Identity Series – External provider authentication & registration strategy
There is no doubt that external provider authentication is a must have feature in new modern applications and makes sense because users are able to easily register new accounts and also login using their social account credentials. The entire process… Read More ›
ASP.NET Core Identity Series – OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect & IdentityServer
As the web evolved over the years it proved that the traditional security options and mechanics such as client-server authentication, had several limitations and couldn’t cover (at least properly) the cases introduced by the evolution. Take for example the case… Read More ›
ASP.NET Core Identity Series – Deep dive in Authorization
Authorization in ASP.NET Core is the process that determines whether a user can or cannot access a specific resource. It’s not part of the ASP.NET Core Identity library but can be tightly connected to its underline structures such as Claims… Read More ›
ASP.NET Core Identity Series – Getting Started
ASP.NET Core Identity is Microsoft’s membership system widely known to .NET developers for managing application users. And by managing we mean everything that has to do with a user account such as creating one, login functionality (cookies, tokens, Multi-Factor Authentication,… Read More ›
Secure WCF Services with custom encrypted tokens
Windows Communication Foundation framework comes with a lot of options out of the box, concerning the security logic you will apply to your services. Different bindings can be used for certain kind and levels of security. Even the BasicHttpBinding binding… Read More ›