Introducing the Identity Guardians - Meet your auth tokens

Join us for 2 talks: Introducing the Identity Guardians - Meet your auth tokens, presented by Alisa Duncan and Discovering the Power of SCIM, presented by Semona Igama.

Introducing the Identity Guardians - Meet your auth tokens

When you incorporate authentication and authorization in your Single-Page Applications using OAuth 2.0 with OpenID Connect (OIDC), you end up with incomprehensible strings. What are these strings, and why are there so many of them?! This talk covers what these strings are, their purpose, understanding JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) at a high level, and how they fit into your SPA and software applications.

Alisa Duncan is a Senior Developer Advocate at Okta, a full-stack developer, a Pluralsight author, and a Google Developer Expert in Angular. She is passionate about making tech accessible to all communities. When not coding or volunteering, she enjoys cooking, watching K-Dramas, and drinking a glass of wine.

Discovering the Power of SCIM

Do you remember your first day at work and waiting to get access to work apps? If you didn't wait, it's probably because your IT team uses an Identity Provider with centralized user assignment, management, and access to third-party apps. This talk covers the well-designed open protocol called SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) that centralizes management and makes syncing users across systems a breeze. Because who has time to wait?

Semona recently joined forces with Okta's Developer Advocacy Team, having spent three years at Okta as a developer support engineer. She enjoys having conversations with developers and learning how they learn best interacting with Okta products. Outside of work, Semona is a foodie, loves kombucha, and plays board games and ultimate frisbee.

Agenda

6:00 Networking

6:15 Presentation