December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
13h 12m
English
Cloud consumers are compelled to support multiple authentications, communication, and session protocols in order to access and use various cloud services. An authentication service authenticates cloud consumers to access cloud services. The authentication service uses the diverse protocols required by cloud service providers for authenticating cloud consumers.
An authentication gateway service (AGS) can be established as a reverse proxy frontend between the cloud consumer and the cloud resource. This AGS intercepts and terminates the consumer's encrypted network connection and authenticates the cloud consumer. Furthermore, it authenticates itself and the consumer to the cloud provider and then proxies ...
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