Enterprise Security Explained: From SAML to OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and JWT
Enterprise Security Explained: From SAML to OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and JWT Understanding modern authentication and authorisation in distributed enterprise architectures. 1. Introduction Enterprise security has changed dramatically over the last two decades. In the past, enterprise applications were typically monolithic systems deployed within a single data centre. Authentication, authorisation and business logic were often managed within the same application or infrastructure. Today, applications are distributed across multiple environments, data centres and cloud providers. A frontend application might run in a user’s browser, communicate with REST APIs hosted in another cloud environment, and rely on an external identity provider to authenticate users. ...