- Course
- Security
Secure Authentication for Go Applications
Successful cybersecurity attacks can devastate your company through theft and loss of customer confidence. This course will teach you how to ensure that your Go services are only accessed by users intended to do so.
What you'll learn
Cybersecurity attacks are a multi-billion-dollar industry. With so much potential gain, attackers are highly motivated to seek out and compromise poorly protected web services. In this course, Secure Authentication for Go Applications, you’ll learn about a variety of authentication mechanisms that can secure your services. First, you’ll explore how to use OAuth and OpenID Connect to authenticate users via trusted third parties. Next, you’ll discover how to authenticate users directly using several certificate and token-based schemes. Finally, you’ll learn how to validate each request to sensitive resources via request signing. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of authentication techniques needed to bolster the defenses of your web services and applications.
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About the author
Michael VanSickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He is a mechanical engineer by training and a software engineer by choice. He is passionate about learning new programming languages and user experience design.