Adding Identity to Your Applications with Christos Matskas and John Patrick Dandison
What is the right way to secure your applications? Carl and Richard talk to Christos Matskas and John Patrick Dandison about the various security offerings made by Microsoft for application developers. Christos and JD talk about Azure Active Directory B2C and the upcoming Microsoft Identity Web libraries on GitHub. The conversation explores reasoning for rolling your own security - which is almost never the right solution. Let the existing tools make your life easier when it comes to recovering passwords, using multifactor authentication, and more!
Guests:
Christos Matskas
Christos Matskas is a software developer, dad, blogger, husband, speaker and all-around geek. He currently works as a Developer Advocate for Microsoft Identity helping developers and teams leverage the power of the identity and cloud. Before joining Microsoft, he was a successful entrepreneur collaborating with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin and Barclays. He's been building software for over 15 years and he's a passionate Open Source advocate. He contributes regularly to OSS projects and works closely with the developer community to make the space bigger and better.
John Patrick Dandison
John Patrick Dandison, or JP, has been building software for a while. In late 2010 he started working with Azure, and quickly realized its great potential for developers. He has had many exciting roles but since joining Microsoft he's had the privilege of working closely with many high-profile customers and building some truly exciting solutions. JP currently works as a PM for the Microsoft Identity Dev Advocacy team where he focuses on our community and building a great Identity platform for everyone.
Links:
- Slack Theme for VS Code https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felipe-mendes.slack-theme
- Identity Server https://identityserver.io/
- Azure Active Directory B2C https://azure.microsoft.com/services/active-directory/external-identities/b2c/
- Auth0 https://auth0.com/
- Okta https://www.okta.com/
- IdentityManagerUI https://github.com/mguinness/IdentityManagerUI
- ASP.NET Core Authentication https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/security/authentication/?view=aspnetcore-3.1
- Azure Active Directory https://azure.microsoft.com/services/active-directory/
- Microsoft Identity Web https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-identity-web
- MS Identity on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/msiddev