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Today, I'm going to show you how to plug Okta into a Force.com application (along with Mulesoft's API gateway) using the OpenID Connect protocol (aka 'OIDC').
Read more about One Identity Across Salesforce.com and Mulesoft
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JSON Web Tokens (JWT) are used everywhere (even places they shouldn't be). This post will cover the basics of what you need to know about JWT and the related specifications in the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) family.
Read more about A Beginner's Guide to JWTs
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Nowadays, using a password for authentication is becoming less and less secure. Password attacks are becoming more sophisticated, and data breaches occur more frequently. Have I Been Pwned, the website where you can check if your account has been compromised in a data breach, contains more than 10 billion accounts…
Read more about How to Use WebAuthn in C#
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As Python grows in popularity, the variety of high-quality frameworks available to developers has blossomed. In addition to steadfast options like Django and Flask, there are many new options including FastAPI.
Read more about Build and Secure an API in Python with FastAPI
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Almost any web app needs some sort of access control, usually implemented by user login. Choosing how user authentication is implemented depends on the type of application and its audience. In this post, I want to show you a few different ways of creating a login feature in a single-page…
Read more about A Quick Guide to React Login Options
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Google's recent approach to SameSite cookie attributes caused a bit of confusion among developers. Especially in cases where handling redirects is necessary. After doing some research in the topic I'd like this article to be a guide on how to handle SameSite cookie attributes properly in production. This guide can…
Read more about How to Support .NET Core SameSite + OAuth Apps on Linux
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Spring Boot and Spring Security have delighted developers with their APIs for quite some time now. Spring Security has done an excellent job of implementing OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC) standards for the last few years.
Read more about Scaling Secure Applications with Spring Session and Redis
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Okta is an Identity Management Platform that takes all the hassle out of authentication and authorization. It's feature-packed with everything from workforce integrations for G-Suite to the latest version of OAuth 2.0 as-a-service for developers writing their own APIs.
Read more about Introducing the Okta CLI5 min read
There has been a cut-throat competition between cloud hosts in the past few years - each attempting to earn the sympathy of developers and dev-ops by rolling out shiny new tools, plugins, and integrations. There are a gazillion how-to tutorials and guides in the community on using these tools. Sometimes…
Read more about How to Deploy Your .NET Core App to Google Cloud, AWS or Azure
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The microservice architecture pattern, in which business functionality is distributed among many small atomic applications as opposed to one or two monolithic chunks, is very powerful and in wide use across large and small tech companies. Each piece has a narrow, well-defined task and communicates with other services via a…
Read more about Spring Cloud Config for Shared Microservice Configuration
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The year is 1995...
Read more about 25 Years of JavaScript and Java! 🎉
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The Okta CLI is a new tool we've created here at Okta. It's designed to streamline creating new Okta accounts, registering apps, and getting started. Wwwhhaaattt, you might say?! That's right, it's super awesome!
Read more about Use the Okta CLI to Quickly Build Secure Angular Apps
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