January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
14h 58m
English
Designing an authentication and authorization strategy for distributed Web applications is a challenging task. The good news is that proper authentication and authorization design during the early phases of your application development helps to mitigate many top security risks.
This chapter will help you design an appropriate authorization strategy for your application and will also help answer the following key questions:
Where should I perform authorization and what mechanisms should I use?
What authentication mechanism should I use?
Should I use Active Directory® directory service for authentication or should I validate credentials against a custom data store?
What are the implications and design ...
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