Secure login in ReactJS with Azure AD B2C

I am going to write this document since I was unable to find perfect one document that Cleary mentioned how to setup the login to a react frontend with Azure active Directory b2c.

Before working towards the tutorial I will discussed briefly what is Azure active directory b2c and it’s advantages. Azure Active Directory B2C provides business-to-customer identity as a service. customers of the application can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account to get single sign-on access to your application. It uses can be dropdown as topic as below. If you want in detail pls visit  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/

• Custom-branded identity solution (You can customize the login as your wish)
• Single sign-on access with a user-provided identity
• Integrate with external user stores
• Progressive profiling
• Third-party identity verification and proofing

Prerequisites

1. Have an Azure account. If not please visit  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
2. Knowledge about basic ReactJS
3. A b2c active directory tenant. Please follow the tutorial if you haven’t one  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/tutorial-create-tenant?

Okay let’s start,

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Secure login in ReactJS with Azure AD B2C

I am going to write this document since I was unable to find perfect one document that Cleary mentioned how to setup the login to a react frontend with Azure active Directory b2c.

Before working towards the tutorial I will discussed briefly what is Azure active directory b2c and it’s advantages. Azure Active Directory B2C provides business-to-customer identity as a service. customers of the application can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account to get single sign-on access to your application. It uses can be dropdown as topic as below. If you want in detail pls visit  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/

• Custom-branded identity solution (You can customize the login as your wish)
• Single sign-on access with a user-provided identity
• Integrate with external user stores
• Progressive profiling
• Third-party identity verification and proofing

Prerequisites

1. Have an Azure account. If not please visit  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
2. Knowledge about basic ReactJS
3. A b2c active directory tenant. Please follow the tutorial if you haven’t one  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/tutorial-create-tenant?

Okay let’s start,

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Everything around us has become smart, like smart infrastructures, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, to name a few. The innovation of smart devices makes it possible to achieve these heights in science and technology. But, data is vulnerable, there is a risk of attack by cybercriminals. To get started, let’s know about IoT devices.

What are IoT devices?

The Internet Of Things(IoT) is a system that interrelates computer devices like sensors, software, and actuators, digital machines, etc. They are linked together with particular objects that work through the internet and transfer data over devices without humans interference.

Famous examples are Amazon Alexa, Apple SIRI, Interconnected baby monitors, video doorbells, and smart thermostats.

How could your IoT devices be vulnerable?

When technologies grow and evolve, risks are also on the high stakes. Ransomware attacks are on the continuous increase; securing data has become the top priority.

When you think your smart home won’t fudge a thing against cybercriminals, you should also know that they are vulnerable. When cybercriminals access our smart voice speakers like Amazon Alexa or Apple Siri, it becomes easy for them to steal your data.

Cybersecurity report 2020 says popular hacking forums expose 770 million email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, 620 million accounts have been compromised from 16 hacked websites.

The attacks are likely to increase every year. To help you secure your data of IoT devices, here are some best tips you can implement.

Tips to secure your IoT devices

1. Change Default Router Name

Your router has the default name of make and model. When we stick with the manufacturer name, attackers can quickly identify our make and model. So give the router name different from your addresses, without giving away personal information.

2. Know your connected network and connected devices

If your devices are connected to the internet, these connections are vulnerable to cyber attacks when your devices don’t have the proper security. Almost every web interface is equipped with multiple devices, so it’s hard to track the device. But, it’s crucial to stay aware of them.

3. Change default usernames and passwords

When we use the default usernames and passwords, it is attackable. Because the cybercriminals possibly know the default passwords come with IoT devices. So use strong passwords to access our IoT devices.

4. Manage strong, Unique passwords for your IoT devices and accounts

Use strong or unique passwords that are easily assumed, such as ‘123456’ or ‘password1234’ to protect your accounts. Give strong and complex passwords formed by combinations of alphabets, numeric, and not easily bypassed symbols.

Also, change passwords for multiple accounts and change them regularly to avoid attacks. We can also set several attempts to wrong passwords to set locking the account to safeguard from the hackers.

5. Do not use Public WI-FI Networks

Are you try to keep an eye on your IoT devices through your mobile devices in different locations. I recommend you not to use the public WI-FI network to access them. Because they are easily accessible through for everyone, you are still in a hurry to access, use VPN that gives them protection against cyber-attacks, giving them privacy and security features, for example, using Express VPN.

6. Establish firewalls to discover the vulnerabilities

There are software and firewalls like intrusion detection system/intrusion prevention system in the market. This will be useful to screen and analyze the wire traffic of a network. You can identify the security weakness by the firewall scanners within the network structure. Use these firewalls to get rid of unwanted security issues and vulnerabilities.

7. Reconfigure your device settings

Every smart device comes with the insecure default settings, and sometimes we are not able to change these default settings configurations. These conditions need to be assessed and need to reconfigure the default settings.

8. Authenticate the IoT applications

Nowadays, every smart app offers authentication to secure the accounts. There are many types of authentication methods like single-factor authentication, two-step authentication, and multi-factor authentication. Use any one of these to send a one time password (OTP) to verify the user who logs in the smart device to keep our accounts from falling into the wrong hands.

9. Update the device software up to date

Every smart device manufacturer releases updates to fix bugs in their software. These security patches help us to improve our protection of the device. Also, update the software on the smartphone, which we are used to monitoring the IoT devices to avoid vulnerabilities.

10. Track the smartphones and keep them safe

When we connect the smart home to the smartphone and control them via smartphone, you need to keep them safe. If you miss the phone almost, every personal information is at risk to the cybercriminals. But sometimes it happens by accident, makes sure that you can clear all the data remotely.

However, securing smart devices is essential in the world of data. There are still cybercriminals bypassing the securities. So make sure to do the safety measures to avoid our accounts falling out into the wrong hands. I hope these steps will help you all to secure your IoT devices.

If you have any, feel free to share them in the comments! I’d love to know them.

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Practical Azure: Secure a .NET Core Web API using Azure AD B2C.

The objective of this post is to understand how to secure a .NET Core web API using Azure AD B2C, and how to access that API from an Angular application.

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Hybrid Identity Solution with Azure AD and Azure AD B2C

I am going to retire the current stack of technologies used in this blog in favor of more recent technologies, mainly because I currently author this blog using Windows Live Writer which is outdated and has lost the love of community. I am also taking this opportunity to create a new technology stack that is much more modular and allows me to focus only on writing. I am also learning cool new stuff which might be useful to all of us. I am super happy with a few components that I currently use and I would be reusing the things that are working well. The entire source code of this blog is available in my GitHub repository from where you can happily copy and paste stuff. You can also read about how I built the existing blog framework (v1) here. Of course, I would write about how I chose components for my new blogging platform and how you can set one up yourself, so stay tuned (even better, subscribe).

September 8, 2016: This activity is now complete and you are reading this post on my new blogging platform.

Azure Access Control Service is dead (well almost). Azure AD B2C is out, up and running and supports many of the common social accounts and even using new credentials. Both the Azure AD and Azure AD B2C use OAuth 2.0 mechanism to authorize access to resources of users. At this point some of you may want to understand…

What is OAuth 2.0?

If you like reading loads of text, here is what Microsoft’s documentation recommends that you read. For the rest of us, including me, we will use OAuth 2.0 playground to understand what OAuth is. For this activity you will require an account with Google and an interest in YouTube. We will use OAuth based flow to fetch the content that is displayed on your YouTube homepage.

There are four parties in the OAuth flow, namely:

1. Resource Owner: In our experiment this is you. The Resource Owner or user grants permission to an application to access his\her content (YouTube feed data). The access of application is limited to the scope of authorization (e.g. read only, write only, read-write etc.)
2. Authorization Server: This server stores the identity information of the Resource Owner, which in our case is Google’s identity server. It accepts user credentials and passes two tokens to the application.
3. Access Token: The token which the application can use to access the Resource Owner’s content.
4. Refresh Token: The token that the application can use to get a fresh Access Token before or when the Access Token expires. The Refresh Token may have a lifetime after which it becomes invalid. Once that happens, the user would be required to authenticate himself\herself again.
5. Client/Application: The Client is the application that wants to access the Resource Owner’s data. Before it may do so, it must be authorized by the Resource Owner and the authorization must be validated by the Authorization Server.
6. Resource Server: This the application that trusts the Authorization Server and will honor requests that are sent with Access Tokens by the application. This in our case is YouTube. Resource Owner can limit the authorization granted to the client by specifying the Scope. You must have seen the application of Scope in Facebook’s ability for users to authorize a variety of different functions to the client (“access basic information”, “post on wall”, etc.).

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Clustering

K-means is one of the simplest unsupervised machine learning algorithms that solve the well-known data clustering problem. Clustering is one of the most common data analysis tasks used to get an intuition about data structure. It is defined as finding the subgroups in the data such that each data points in different clusters are very different. We are trying to find the homogeneous subgroups within the data. Each group’s data points are similarly based on similarity metrics like a Euclidean-based distance or correlation-based distance.

The algorithm can do clustering analysis based on features or samples. We try to find the subcategory of sampling based on attributes or try to find the subcategory of parts based on samples. The practical applications of such a procedure are many: the best use of clustering in amazon and Netflix recommended system, given a medical image of a group of cells, a clustering algorithm could aid in identifying the centers of the cells; looking at the GPS data of a user’s mobile device, their more frequently visited locations within a certain radius can be revealed; for any set of unlabeled observations, clustering helps establish the existence of some structure of data that might indicate that the data is separable.

What is K-Means Clustering?

K-means the clustering algorithm whose primary goal is to group similar elements or data points into a cluster.

K in k-means represents the number of clusters.

A cluster refers to a collection of data points aggregated together because of certain similarities.

K-means clustering is an iterative algorithm that starts with k random numbers used as mean values to define clusters. Data points belong to the group represented by the mean value to which they are closest. This mean value co-ordinates called the centroid.

Iteratively, the mean value of each cluster’s data points is computed, and the new mean values are used to restart the process till the mean stops changing. The disadvantage of k-means is that it a local search procedure and could miss global patterns.

The k initial centroids can be randomly selected. Another approach of determining k is to compute the entire dataset’s mean and add _k _random co-ordinates to it to make k initial points. Another method is to determine the principal component of the data and divide it into _k _equal partitions. The mean of each section can be used as initial centroids.

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