What is Authentication Profile in Pega Connect-REST?

Authentication Profile in Pega Connect-REST allows for access to Secured REST services by specifying the credentials and security protocols. The profile is used to authenticate requests to external systems or access OAuth2 and OpenID Connect services for user-level authentication. Authentication Profile procedures can be configured to support Basic Authentication, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect protocols.

The authentication Profile in Pega Connect-REST is a set of configurations that defines the authentication mechanism and information used to authenticate an external system with the Connect-REST service. It includes a number of authentication details such as authentication type, trust store, user ID, password, OAuth configuration, and so on. An authentication profile also allows users to securely store and manage authentication tokens used in token-based authentication.

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Attribute based access control in Pega (ABAC)

Pega ABAC vs RBAC

As we all know, securing our application and data is very important in real-time. We can provide security to our application and data by defining some policies, conditions, and controlling app features and user actions.

Pega defines some access control rules to define and secure our application.

Access roles, Access Role to object, Access deny, Privilege these are all to grant or deny access to an application to the user. Pega has two mechanisms ABAC and RBAC.