Authorization and Access Control: Foundations, Frameworks, and Applications

This book focuses on various authorization and access control techniques, threats and attack modeling, including an overview of the Open Authorization 2.0 (OAuth 2.0) framework along with user-managed access (UMA) and security analysis. Important key concepts are discussed regarding login credentials with restricted access to third parties with a primary account as a resource server. A detailed protocol overview and authorization process, along with security analysis of OAuth 2.0, are also ...