How do I authenticate API in Azure?

In this article

  1. Prerequisites.
  2. Overview.
  3. Register an application in Azure AD to represent the API.
  4. Configure a JWT validation policy to pre-authorize requests.
  5. Authorization workflow.
  6. Next steps.

Which three authentication policies does API Management support natively?

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  • Authentication policies.
  • Authenticate with Basic.
  • Authenticate with client certificate.
  • Authenticate with managed identity.
  • Next steps.

How do you secure APIs using client certificate authentication in API Management?

Protect your APIs with Azure API Management – part 1 (client certificates)

  1. Options for protecting backend APIs with Azure API Management (APIM)
  2. Client certificates. Create an API in Azure API Management. Configure the client daemon application. Validate the client certificate. Summary.

How do you secure API endpoints in Azure?

You can protect your API endpoint by using either HTTP basic authentication or HTTPS client certificate authentication. In either case, you provide the credentials that Azure AD B2C will use when calling your API endpoint. Your API endpoint then checks the credentials and performs authorization decisions.

Can I use Azure AD for authentication?

Azure AD provides secure authentication and authorization solutions so that customers, partners, and employees can access the applications they need. With Azure AD, conditional access, multi-factor authentication, single-sign on, and automatic user provisioning make identity and access management easy and secure.

How do you manage client certificates?

Chrome: Importing Your Client Certificate

  1. In Chrome, go to Settings.
  2. On the Settings page, below Default browser, click Show advanced settings.
  3. Under HTTPS/SSL, click Manage certificates.
  4. In the Certificates window, on the Personal tab, click Import.
  5. In the Certificate Import Wizard, on the Welcome page, click Next.

What is client certificate authentication?

A client authentication certificate is a certificate used to authenticate clients during an SSL handshake. It authenticates users who access a server by exchanging the client authentication certificate.

What is authentication certificate?

Certificate-based authentication is the use of a Digital Certificate to identify a user, machine, or device before granting access to a resource, network, application, etc. In the case of user authentication, it is often deployed in coordination with traditional methods such as username and password.

Which two objects can you use to pass the subscription key to the API?

The subscription key can be passed either in the header or in the URL query parameter.

What is the difference between API gateway and API Management?

While API Gateways and API management can be used interchangeably, strictly speaking an API gateway refers to the individual proxy server, while API management refers to the overall solution of managing APIs in production which includes a set of API gateways acting in a cluster, an administrative UI, and may even …

Does Azure API Management have WAF?

Azure Application Gateway is a platform as a service (PaaS) that acts as a Layer-7 load balancer. It acts as a reverse-proxy service and provides among its offerings Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF).