Design principles for architectural security
Security is all about the ability to protect your system and information while delivering business value for your customers. Lack of good security can have a serious impact on your customers and business.
You need to conduct an in-depth security risk assessment and plan a mitigation strategy for the continuous operation of your business. The following sections talk about standard design principles that will help you strengthen your architectural security.
Implementing authentication and authorization control
The purpose of authentication is to determine whether a user can access the system with the provided credentials, while authorization determines what a user can do once they are inside the system.
You should create a centralized system to manage your users’ authentication and authorization. A centralized user management system helps you to keep track of users’ activity so you can deactivate them if they...
