Tokens are essential for secure digital access, but what if you need to revoke them? Despite our best efforts, there are times when tokens can be compromised. This may occur due to coding errors, accidental logging, zero-day vulnerabilities, and other factors. Token revocation is a critical aspect of modern security, ensuring that access remains in the right hands and unauthorized users are kept out. In this article, we’ll explore how different methods, such as centralized control and distributed Kafka handling, play a vital role in keeping your systems and data safe.
Access/Refresh Tokens
I described more about using JWTs in this article. JWTs allow you to eliminate the use of centralized token storage and verify tokens in the middleware layer of each microservice.
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