From the course: Microservices: Security
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Identity and Access Management platforms
From the course: Microservices: Security
Identity and Access Management platforms
- [Instructor] In a microservice architecture, the identity service provides two critical capabilities: authentication and token management. Now, as a general rule of thumb, in the security domain, you do not want to build your own solutions. You want to source them from expert providers. Luckily, there are many open-source and commercial identity and access management platforms that provide authentication and token management right out of the box. We can use these solutions in order to fulfill the capabilities required for our identity service. Now if you're in an enterprise setting, it's highly likely that your IAM platform has been selected for you. As a developer or a security engineer, you're going to find yourself integrating microservices with the IAM platform in order to secure them. From an integration perspective, we're primarily interested in four capabilities provided by these platforms: authentication, identity…
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