Implement Microsoft Identity Series | Session 4

The Microsoft identity platform is an evolution of the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) developer platform. Microsoft Identity enables developers to build many different types of applications to satisfy diverse business requirements and different scenarios. By supporting multiple OAuth 2.0 standard authentication protocols, developers can create different types of applications that meet business needs including single page applications, web apps, mobile or native apps, and services or daemon apps.

What is this session about?
This is part of an Identity series which will cover "Implementation of the Microsoft Identity Platform."
If you wish to follow along. we will be utilizing this Microsoft Learn Track: https://aka.ms/MSFTIdentity-2

In this session, we will cover the fourth module of this track: Secure Custom APIs with Microsoft Identity

Today you’ll learn about securing a web API with Microsoft identity and then how to call it from another application.

Who is it aimed at?
Developers that want to build applications that sign in users, and access resources in both external applications such as Microsoft Office 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications and internal resources, such as apps on your corporate network and intranet, along with any cloud apps developed by your own organization.

Why should I attend?
If you want to learn how to utilize Microsoft Identity in your custom applications, this series walks you through the process with Microsoft instructors to guide you and answer questions along the way.
This learning path can help you prepare for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Developer Associate certification.

Meet the instructors:
Christos Matskas, Senior PM, Microsoft
Christos is a software developer, dad, blogger, husband, speaker, and all around geek. He currently works as a Developer Advocate for Microsoft Identity helping developers and teams leverage the power of the identity and cloud. Before joining Microsoft, he was a successful entrepreneur collaborating with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin and Barclays. He's been building software for over 15 years and he's a passionate Open Source advocate. He contributes regularly to numerous OSS projects and works closely with the developer community to make the space bigger and better.

JP Dandison, Principal PM, Microsoft
John (or JP, or John Patrick - many wake words, like Alexa) has been building and deploying software for 16 years, focused on cloud since 2010. Before Microsoft, he worked as an enterprise developer, then launched a completely cloud-native start-up, which was awarded patents for cloud-based tech. Since coming to Microsoft, he has worked to help developers focus on building software that matters and transforming their businesses with cloud and modern identity. Currently, he works as a PM in developer advocacy in the Microsoft Identity Division.
Check out Christos and JP's weekly show here: https://aka.ms/425Show

If you missed the first two modules of this series, they can be found here:
March 8th - covered module 1 / Recording - https://youtu.be/sVDwOYoKSyU
March 15th - covered module 2 / Recording - https://youtu.be/4CF4TcTXusw
March 22 - Module 3 - recording TBD
Future sessions: April 5, April 12

Pre-requisites:
o Basic knowledge of OAuth authentication flows and terminologies
o Experience using Visual Studio Code at the beginner level
o Access to a Microsoft 365 tenant