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E. ScioreUnderstanding Oracle APEX 20 Application Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6165-1_13

13. Security

Edward Sciore1 
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Newton Center, MA, USA
 

When you created your Employee Demo application, you chose to restrict access to those who have an account on your workspace. This restriction is one of several APEX facilities for limiting access. These facilities can be divided into authentication, which identifies the legal users, and authorization, which specifies what information each legal user is allowed to see. This chapter will examine these facilities, as well as the related issue of how to protect the data from malicious users.

Authentication

Authentication is the ability to identify the current user of an application. ...

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