The main feature focus of ASP.NET Web API v2 was security. There’s a brand new authentication system and support for popular authentication methods, like OAuth2 tokens, that is already built-in. Additionally, it is now much easier to use Web APIs from JavaScript clients and the new security extensibility gives you powerful features to integrate your APIs in arbitrary security systems.
Author Name: Dominick Baier
Author Description:
Dominick works as an associate consultant for the Germany-based company thinktecture (http://www.thinktecture.com). His main area of focus is security in general and identity & access control in particular. He helps customers around the world implementing claims-based identity, single sign-on, authorization and federation in their web applications, services and APIs. Dominick is an international conference speaker and the author of “Developing more-secure ASP.NET Application” and co-author of th… more