Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications: Demystifying OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0

© Yvonne Wilson, Abhishek Hingnikar  2019

Y. Wilson, A. HingnikarSolving Identity Management in Modern Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5095-2_19

19. Failures

Yvonne Wilson¹  and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

—George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, poet, and novelist, from The Life of Reason, vol. 1 (1905)

We have covered several aspects of identity management relevant to an application development project. Writing an application with perfect identity management will be for naught, however, if flaws in your environment or processes introduce a vulnerability, especially one that compromises sensitive identity data. It is often said that one can ...