Authentication and authorization in the cloud: a brief and necessary context
The process of building cloud-oriented software requires a more complex design when compared to the development of desktop applications for many reasons, one of the most important aspects to be considered even before the start of development is security. Security in software has several aspects, among them the most debated are: authentication and authorization. One of the premises of the construction of any web system is data security, regardless of the nature or visibility the application must allow access to data only through the means made available by it (such as the API - Application Programming Interface, or Application Programming Interface ).