{"id":20984,"date":"2015-01-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/2015\/01\/20\/should-an-application-handle-user-credentials\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:28:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T03:28:38","slug":"should-an-application-handle-user-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/should-an-application-handle-user-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Should an application handle user credentials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With development of standard authentication protocols like WS-federation, SAML and OAuth, there should be very few situations where a web application has to implement its own storage and logic for handling user credentials. This blog from Premier Developer consultant <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/mrochon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marius Rochon<\/a> enumerates the benefits of using out-of-the-box authentication solutions, some myths preventing their adoption and possible exceptions for not using these solutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/mrochon\/archive\/2014\/12\/02\/should-an-application-handle-user-credentials.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/mrochon\/archive\/2014\/12\/02\/should-an-application-handle-user-credentials.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With development of standard authentication protocols like WS-federation, SAML and OAuth, there should be very few situations where a web application has to implement its own storage and logic for handling user credentials. This blog from Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon enumerates the benefits of using out-of-the-box authentication solutions, some myths preventing their adoption and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":37840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,136,137,187,266,58,3],"class_list":["post-20984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permierdev","tag-active-directory","tag-adfs","tag-advisory","tag-credential-management","tag-marius-rochon","tag-security","tag-team"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>With development of standard authentication protocols like WS-federation, SAML and OAuth, there should be very few situations where a web application has to implement its own storage and logic for handling user credentials. This blog from Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon enumerates the benefits of using out-of-the-box authentication solutions, some myths preventing their adoption and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}