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Graph-Based Authorization: How to Secure Your API With Your Own Graph

Session Track: Applications

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Session description

This session will address the critical, yet often overlooked, topic of authorization in API and app development. Given that broken access control tops the list of security issues in web development, implementing robust authorization is imperative. This session will explain the fundamentals of externalized dynamic authorization and offer graph modelling tips to leverage knowledge graphs for enforcing effective access control using authorization models such as ReBAC, NGAC, and ABAC.

Speaker

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Alex Babeanu

CTO, 3Edges

CTO at 3Edges and former Identity management specialist, Alex has been building software forever (it seems) for big companies such as PeopleSoft or Oracle, and evangelizing the use of graphs for Identity since 2014. A technologist with an eye always set to the future, his goal is to make the latest technology accessible to all. Alex holds an MSc in Knowledge Based Systems from the University of Edinburgh.