Mastering Azure API Management: A Practical Approach to Designing and Implementing an API-Centric Enterprise Architecture

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S. MalvikMastering Azure API Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8011-9_15

15. Security

Sven Malvik¹  

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Fjerdingby, Norway

 

You have learned many of the most important security aspects of Azure API Management already. However, there is at least one aspect remaining that you need to understand, authentication. In this chapter, you will learn to authenticate a client with a backend web service using both HTTP basic authentication and OAuth 2.0. At the end of this chapter, you will learn about two additional security aspects that are important to understand when working with Azure API Management.

Authentication

In this section, you will learn two ways ...