Chapter 7: Securing the Ballerina Cloud Platform

Modern web-based software applications are a collection of distributed components rather than a single application. Integrating different components is a key factor that exposes software applications to threats. Therefore, securing cloud applications is critical as it has multiple components connected over a network. Building secure cloud applications includes securing communication over a network, authenticating users, authorizing users in different access levels, and so on.

In this chapter, we will go over how to create a Ballerina cloud application securely by using Ballerina's security features. We will go through several multiple free open source tools that can be used with the Ballerina ...

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