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Master SOA Design Pattern Catalog
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Direct Authentication

(Hogg, Smith, Chong, Hollander, Kozaczynski, Brader,
Delgado, Taylor, Wall, Slater, Imran, Cibraro, Cunningham)

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Home > Service Interaction Security Patterns > Direct Authentication
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How can a service verify the credentials provided by a consumer?
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Problem

Some of the capabilities offered by a service may be intended for
specific groups of consumers or may involve the transmission of
sensitive data. Attackers that access this data could use it to
compromise the service or the IT enterprise itself.
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Solution

Service capabilities require that consumers provide credentials
that can be authenticated against an identity store.
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Application

The service implementation is provided access to an identity
store, allowing it to authenticate the consumer directly.
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Impacts

Consumers must provide credentials compatible with the
service's authentication logic. This pattern may lead to multiple
identity stores, resulting in extra governance burden.
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By having the service authenticate consumer requests against an identity store, only safe consumers
can access sensitive data and logic.

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Related Patterns in This Catalog

Brokered Authentication (Hogg, Smith, Chong, Hollander, Kozaczynski, Brader, Delgado, Taylor, Wall, Slater, Imran, Cibraro, Cunningham),
Data Confidentiality (Hogg, Smith, Chong, Hollander, Kozaczynski, Brader, Delgado, Taylor, Wall, Slater, Lmran, Cibraro, Cunningham),
Data Origin Authentication (Hogg, Smith, Chong, Hollander, Kozaczynski, Brader, Delgado, Taylor, Wall, Slater, Imran, Cibraro, Cunningham),
Service Perimeter Guard (Hogg, Smith, Chong, Hollander, Kozaczynski, Brader, Delgado, Taylor, Wall, Slater, Imran, Cibraro, Cunningham),
Trusted Subsystem (Hogg, Smith, Chong, Hollander, Kozaczynski, Brader, Delgado, Taylor, Wall, Slater, Imran, Cibraro, Cunningham)
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This page contains excerpts from:

SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl

Foreword by Grady Booch

With contributions from David Chappell, Jason Hogg, Anish Karmarkar, Mark Little, David Orchard, Satadru Roy, Thomas Rischbeck, Arnaud Simon, Clemens Utschig, Dennis Wisnosky, and others.

(ISBN: 0136135161, Hardcover, Full-Color, 400+ Illustrations, 865 pages)

For more information about this book, visit www.soabooks.com.
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