Azure Active Directory B2C Overview and Policies Management – Part 1

Prior joining Microsoft I was heavily involved in architecting and building a large scale HTTP API which will be consumed by a large number of mobile application consumers on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, and Windows Phone). Securing the API and architecting the Authentication and Authorization part for the API was one of the large and challenging features which we built from scratch as we needed only to support local database account (allowing users to login using their own existing email/username and password). As well writing a proprietary code for each platform to consume the Authentication and Authorization end points, storing the tokens, and refresh them silently was a bit challenging and required skilled mobile apps developers to implement it securely on the different platforms. Don't ask me why we didn't use Xamarin for cross-platform development, it is a long story During developing the back-end API I have learned that building identity management solution is not a trivial feature, and it is better to outsource it to a cloud service provider if this is a feasible option and you want your dev team to focus on building what matters; your business features! Recently Microsoft has announced the general availability in North America data centers of a service named "Azure Active Directory B2C" which in my humble opinion will fill the gap of having a cloud identity and access management service targeted especially for mobile apps and web developers who need to build apps for consumers; consumers who want to sign in with their existing email/usernames, create new app-specific local accounts, or use their existing social accounts (Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Amazon, Microsoft account) to sign in into the mobile/web app.

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