ASP.NET Core Identity - Authentication and Authorization

Description

In this course, you will learn the basics of modern authentication using the ASP.NET Core identity library and learn to the specific business needs. While perfect security is arguably impossible to achieve, we will explore a variety of techniques that help in ensuring security as well as maintaining the ease of use of the system. Identity Core is a flagship library packaged with ASP.NET Core projects that helps in securing ASP.NET applications using features such as authentication, role management, and so on. . Getting authentication and authorization done right in your website can help keep your users and their data safe from attacks. Added features such as Two and Multi-Factor Authentication are relatively easy to plug in and this library can easily be extended to implement unique business rules. Even though the fundamentals of the security principles will be demonstrated with a Razor pages application, all the techniques and considerations can be taken in any ASP.NET Core application type, including MVC and Blazor. By the time you have finished the course, you will have moved around in Visual Studio and examined logic and syntax errors so much, that it will be second nature for you when working in the .NET environment. All resources and code files are placed here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/ASP.NET-Core-Identity---Authentication-and-Authorization

What You Will Learn

Learn to add authorization and user restrictions
Implement two and Multi-Factor Authentication
Learn modern authentication methods (Social logins, OAuth and more)
Learn password policies and recovery
Use build and manage user claims
Learn how to properly implement user roles, claims and policies

Audience

To take this course, you will need to have some knowledge of .NET Core development and C#. This course can be taken by anyone who wants to explore advanced authentication and authorization concepts and also who wants to fully understand how to secure a .NET Core Application.

Approach

This course has just over 5 hours of premium content, smartly broken up to highlight a set of related activities based on each module in the application that is being built. We will also look at troubleshooting and debugging errors as we go along; implementing best practices; writing efficient logic and understanding why developers do things the way they do. Your knowledge will grow, step by step, throughout the course and you will be challenged to be the best you can be.

Key Features

Learn how to add cookie authentication manually to an ASP.NET Core application * Learn to setup emailing features for secure account confirmation, forgot password and other processes * Learn to properly implement a user authentication and registration process

Github Repo

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/ASP.NET-Core-Identity---Authentication-and-Authorization

About the Author

Trevoir Williams

Trevoir Williams is a software engineer and part-time lecturer. With a master's degree in computer science, he has spent over a decade teaching web, software, and database development courses. He also has extensive industry experience in web application development, Azure Cloud system, and server administration. He enjoys teaching IT and development courses and hopes to impart knowledge of the latest developments in industry standards and techniques to his students.

Course Outline

1. Introduction

2. Project Setup and Overview

3. Add Identity To an ASP.NET Core Application

4. Implement Authentication Security with Identity

5. Implement Advanced Authorization

6. Working With OpenIdConnect Identity Providers

7. Conclusion