What is your primary use case for Auth0?

For the past two years, I have been working with Auth0 Platform for CIAM requirements, which is customer identity and access management. Basically, for my requirement, we needed to have SSO implementation for in-house applications. We have two applications, one for partners and one for customers. Customers can log in, so it basically acted as the authentication platform for the application we hosted. This allows users who have multiple identity providers, such as Google, Facebook, or a Microsoft account, to use any of their own IDPs to log into the application we built. For the customer requirement, we do have another tenant where the application itself has been hosted. For machine-to-machine communication, if a machine is required to connect with an external database or to understand how exactly to pull up records, we can get it done. This is also known as a lightweight directory authentication protocol. Identity is majorly integrated based on accounts. Wherever there is a requirement for logging into an application or for having service-to-service communication, we cannot depend on the API. Sometimes it requires a real-time authentication protocol.

A few use cases for Auth0 Platform include using it for authentications and authentication systems and security for good user experience in terms of logging in and logging out into the system and for security itself. In terms of how I use Auth0 Platform for login flows, once I have the data using the OAuth systems, it is able to come in and come out without having to log in, type in the same passwords or username or having to start the entire process again, which makes it frustrating and does not provide a good user experience. The main benefits that I have seen from using Auth0 Platform include the fact that above all, for instance, yesterday I was assigned to a UK company that I am supposed to plan the infrastructure for the system that they are coming to do. I was to plan the security compliance and all of that for it. One thing that I would say helped with the planning, with my knowledge of Auth0 Platform, is the fact that security-wise, I am able to configure user data with the limited information that a system is required to use. For instance, I usually use name and email or, for this instance, I want to be using the phone number. With the data that I want to use to validate the person, I have Auth0 Platform to help with the improvement of the security from the streams, how the person uses their data on my platform. I think that also gives the user a good experience. Usually, people get frustrated with consistently having to log in into the system, but with it, I have a more flexible user experience that makes it easier for people to visit my system. One other thing I would say is the SSO, the single sign-on, where you sign in once and that is a very good thing about Auth0 Platform. I would also say it is good for third-party integrations. The way Auth0 Platform secures APIs, microservices, serverless applications, or containerized workloads in my cloud environment is through the security API integrations. OpenID and OIDC is what helps with the standardized way of validating users and authenticating them into my system. Integrating Auth0 Platform into my own API logic plus third-party integrations is where I serialize, and I have a serialization sequence that validates the user once, through the SSO system. I think it usually depends on the understanding of the engineer on the back end and how they integrate it with their API endpoints to make the experience seamless. Overall, it is easy to integrate with. My first time when I was integrating, I did not have much challenge. Where I had a challenge was where I had to do the cloud setup for the other third parties, but not with the code. Integration-wise, it is fine and easy to use. The AWS services that I integrate with Auth0 Platform include S3, gateways, and Lambda. I use S3 for the cloud storage, then the rest for whatever they have to do. The way Auth0 Platform supports my SaaS or multi-tenant architecture running on public cloud infrastructure is surprisingly seamless. All the systems I have been building recently are multi-tenant based, perhaps one or two systems. With multi-tenant integrations, I found it to be one of the seamless integrations I have ever done. Initially, having to manipulate JavaScript to do that requires a lot of code. However, I started with one tenant, an administrator and a customer, then I expanded it to business to business, then business branches, and then I invite members of each or add them back to the system. Configuring the multi-tenant systems on the back end is easy. I just follow the same sequence where I just have to use the business ID, user ID, and the tenant owner ID to just validate if it belongs to this business and if the user's access token is right, then I just give the user access the way I create the normal user in the system. The flow is seamless when I am using multi-tenant. I have used the multi-tenant in that regard for businesses, people, and branches. It was easy and I did not have any challenge on that branch of the workflow. The industry or customer segment that my application serves is a vertical system. It is a vertical SaaS platform that is developing slowly into a classroom as a service. It serves all industries and is customized for Africa, because I am African. People are using fragmented systems to do their businesses and it does not really promote seamless business transactions and every data is elsewhere. I have a vertical SaaS that cuts across from finance to retail to manufacturing to wholesale to pharmaceuticals and then it continues from there.

We have multi-tenant applications. We initially conducted POCs with other providers including Cognito and some open-source providers, as well as Auth0 Platform. We chose Auth0 Platform because it provides excellent multi-tenant tenancy support, such as creating multiple organizations and having separate users within each organization, which aligned with our application requirements. Auth0 Platform offers good support and community resources, along with APIs and SDKs. We have Next.js in the frontend and FastAPI in the backend. We used Auth0 Platform SDKs to handle all communication with Auth0 Platform from the frontend. After we receive tokens, we use those tokens in the APIs. From the backend, we use Auth0 Platform public keys to authenticate the token and retrieve user information. We implemented Auth0 Platform workflow with two-step verification using authorization code with PKCE. Auth0 Platform generates automatic verification codes whenever users log in. This verification code is sent again after receiving authorization codes to obtain the actual token, which is an encrypted token. When we pass this token to APIs, we retrieve published keys to obtain token information and signatures, which are verified before access to backend system APIs is granted. Everything is handled by Auth0 Platform. From a security and compliance perspective, we receive JWT tokens that we verify using the keys, which secures our backends. We have a central gateway where we route APIs, and on the gateway, we have added Auth0 Platform token verification. If verification passes, we allow access to the application layer; otherwise, we deny the request with appropriate codes like 401 or 403. From a compliance perspective, we did not want to store user IDs and passwords. We used passwordless authentication through email OTP or phone OTP. We also implemented enterprise connections such as Google Workspace and Microsoft Azure AD. The organization support feature allows us to define users based on organizations. Passwordless authentication is a particularly good feature when compared with other platforms.

Auth0 Platform is the main identity provider at my company for different brands, serving as a gateway to downstream systems. Each brand uses Auth0 Platform for authentication and authorization purposes, with different services and functionalities downstream where each system is secured by a JWT token signed by the Auth0 tenant, making Auth0 Platform serve as the identity protection layer and authentication and authorization protocol. Auth0 serves as an attack protection layer, security and access control, automation and onboarding layer.

My main use case for Auth0 Platform is sign up and storing users' information. On our platforms, if we need users to sign up or log in, we use Auth0 Platform implementation with Next.js. It makes the user flow easy to use. If a user wants to use their social sign-in, password, or username and password, we can use the multiple platforms, making the whole process seamless. It is easier than implementing it ourselves. We outsource it to Auth0 Platform, and Auth0 Platform makes the process easier to use. On the platform, because we tailor certain services to certain users, we implement Auth0 Platform with our database. When the users come on the platform, their details are saved. That also eases the stress of having to manually write users' data. All their sessions and their login processes, everything is saved to the database straightforwardly with the use of Auth0 Platform. That also helps us to implement an easy user flow, so we can manipulate the database easily instead of writing from scratch. It helps us with our database work and makes that process easy and seamless. I can give a quick, specific example of how Auth0 Platform has helped me in a real scenario. On our platform, we need users to sign in to use our services. If we wanted to create a social sign-in from scratch, we would have to set up our Google Cloud console, our GitHub console, and we would have to set up Facebook, Google, and other providers. We would have to get each different token and set it up. With Auth0 Platform, it eases that process. If I want to implement multiple sign-in processes with Auth0 Platform, I just need to set up my Auth0 Platform account, and it makes the process easy. If I wasn't using Auth0 Platform, I would have to create it from scratch and set up five different sign-up processes, which would take a lot of time. Auth0 Platform saves us that time so fast and so quick.

We adopted it at the enterprise level as a reliable authentication solution for our Java Spring Boot-based API, and it has been a meaningful part of our backend security stack for a considerable time. Our main use case for Auth0 Platform has been API authentication and authorization. We use it to secure our backend API built on Java and Spring Boot, including issuing JWT tokens, validating them on incoming API requests, defining scopes and permissions for different services, and managing role-based access control across our microservice architecture. In one of our enterprise projects, we have multiple Spring Boot microservices that needed to communicate securely with each other and also serve authentication requests from a frontend application. We integrated Auth0 Platform to act as the central authorization server. Whenever a user logged in, Auth0 Platform would issue a JWT access token. Each of our microservices would then validate that token on every incoming request, checking the signature, expiry, and the specific scopes attached to the token to decide whether to allow or deny access. This made a significant difference because before Auth0 Platform, each service was handling authentication independently, which was messy and inconsistent. Auth0 Platform gave us one centralized place to manage who has access to what, and rolling out new permissions or restricting access became a configuration change in the Auth0 Platform dashboard rather than a code change across multiple services. We also used Auth0 Platform for machine-to-machine authentication, not just user-facing authentication, but also service-to-service communication within our microservices. Each service had its own client credentials and would request tokens from Auth0 Platform independently, which kept things secure even internally. We also leveraged custom claims in JWT tokens, embedding user roles and permissions directly into the token payload. This meant our downstream services did not need to make extra database calls to check permissions because they could read it straight from the token, which improved performance. While the setup for all this was well-documented initially, managing token expiry and refresh cycles across all these services in production is where we had to do a lot of custom handling, which is the one area where Auth0 Platform could improve its enterprise-level guidance.

I have been using Auth0 Platform for more than a year for authorizations, login, and sign-up functionality in my application for my current project. My main use case for Auth0 Platform involves registering all existing users to Auth0 and onboarding new companies and users, which all feed into Auth0. When I need to update any organizational units, such as the name or trading name, I use Auth0. If I need to change the MFA for any existing user or to check roles and permissions granted to a particular user, I use Auth0. As a software engineer, I do not use Auth0 that often; I work with the basic, generic flow which I have already mentioned. The developers in my company would use Auth0 on a day-to-day basis. I have used it to handle login, signups, and user identities, so it is a nice tool to work with.

Auth0 Platform serves as our primary authentication platform for public-facing websites, and we use it primarily for two-factor authentication. We only use Auth0 Platform for user authentication and do not use it for API-based authentication. We currently use Auth0 Platform to secure three applications, and our next phase is introducing multi-tenancy.

I am using Auth0 Platform to implement security in the applications that I build. I build applications for myself or for customers, so Auth0 Platform usually provides security authentication to the users of those applications. Whatever application in whichever language I have built, I can use Auth0 Platform's security for that application because it is easy to implement since they have already built the SDKs and related tools for particular languages. In whichever language my application is, I can use that SDK because they were already pre-built. Using that means that my application development time and the time to implement security for my application will be less. I scheduled a call to provide a review on Auth0 Platform. Auth0 Platform is very easy to use and very intuitive in nature. For developers, it is mainly a great platform to implement the security framework in their applications because they have already built some previously. It is easy to use that instead of building from scratch in my application. The customizations for the end user, such as the domain or the interface which the user is directly facing, can be customized with Auth0 Platform. The hooks, all these actions, and all triggers are parts which I liked more in Auth0 Platform. I can serve almost every category because whichever application I have built can use Auth0 Platform since it supports all web applications, mobile applications, API services, back-end services, and all of this. I can use Auth0 Platform for any sector that has been built with web applications or mobile applications.

Auth0 Platform's main use case is to serve as an identity provider for all the applications that users want to access. This enables achieving single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, migrating users, and keeping them stored safely. Auth0 Platform secures external API calls during the authentication flow through a feature called Action Secrets. When you write custom Node.js code to extend the login process via Auth0 Actions, you use Action Secrets to securely store and inject API tokens or sensitive credentials so they are not exposed to potential attackers.

I work with Okta, and I also work with SailPoint, Veza, and IBM tools because I am overseeing many sales engagements, and I must deal with many tools. We are a service company, and we offer different kinds of products to our clients. For example, there is an enterprise customer XYZ Corporation using Microsoft Azure AD as an IDP, who logs into a multi-tenant HR application through an Auth0 tenant managing connections, RBAC, and tokens. The user visits the HR application and logs in with their email, Auth0 redirects them to Azure AD for authentication, which sends tokens back to Auth0, allowing the user to access the HR app with the roles assigned. Working on Veza at this stage includes preparation for migrating systems; I will begin this process in the coming months after thorough research and planning.

My main use case for Auth0 is for authentication purposes for my APIs. I rely on it mainly to give specific access to a specific enterprise or user depending on their eligibility. I use Auth0 to authenticate our enterprise customers before giving them access to a set of APIs where we show them the data or billing information, anything that they want and we can offer. Everything goes through Auth0.

I am a reseller, and our customers primarily use Auth0 ( /products/auth0-reviews ) for B2B purposes. Auth0 ( /products/auth0-reviews ) is mainly used for their employees.

We use the solution for API security and management. We implement our solution with almost ten to fifteen vendors' APIs, like Salesforce and HubSpot. It involves generating leads, invites, adding contacts, and opportunities, mostly challenging with Salesforce integration due to limited documentation.

We have user management, role management, and tenant concepts for multi-tenant applications. We use organizations in Auth0. For Okta, we mostly use it for internal SSO to provision users to internal tools.

Developers use the solution to build log-in and sign-up experiences. Auth0 provides an API key that is integrated with the code. We provide sign-in and sign-up instead of making our sign-up, sign-in, invite-user, and forgot-password. We buy Auth0 and integrate it; they run it on their cloud.

We use the tool for Single Sign-On (SSO) feature.

Our initial use case was authentication. We didn't want to implement anything from scratch, so we needed an out-of-the-box solution. That's why we chose Auth0. Right now, it's deployed on-premises for our development environment and on cloud. The cloud provider is AWS. We're in the beginning stages of a project, so only 10 people are currently using this solution in my organization.

We use this solution for authentication and authorization, and we deploy it on cloud. For example, if you log into a particular portal, this platform will help authenticate a valid user. It supports identity federation, FSO and multi-tenancy.

We use it as an authentication platform for our customers.

We are building a software as a service platform of products, and we wanted our customers to be able to have the same seamless experience in terms of how they log into our products. We wanted it to be secure, and we didn't want to use our own development resources in building our own solution. We wanted something that is secure and ready at the beginning of our development so that we have a very short time to market. We wanted it to be a very extensible solution and building something on our own wasn't an option for us. We wanted something that was already there. We also wanted a company that is highly committed to delivering state-of-the-art solutions for identity management. It is deployed in the cloud. This is a software as a service. So, our workloads work in the cloud. We are mostly using AWS, but we also have Azure and GCP. We are a multi-cloud company.

The primary use case of this solution is to authenticate APIs, customer authentication, and business-to-business authentication.

We were evaluating Auth0 as centralized authentication solution for our in-house development. We are searching for the best solution to take care of this because our product development is ongoing, and we want to find just the right fit. Ultimately, we did not choose Auth0.

I'm a security architect. The product is used by our customers, not by our company people directly, so I expect we would have several thousand people using this solution.