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Security and authentication

- [Instructor] Let's talk about security and authentication. This is something that is baked into the event grid so let's understand how event grid handles these. When we think of security, we think of authentication and authorization, right? This is something you must of heard over and over again. Authentication, who are you? Authorization, what can you do? So in the case of event grid, when we talk of authentication there are three different unique concepts we need to learn about. Webhooks, event subscriptions, and custom topics. So all of these handle authentication slightly differently. So, let's walk through these in a little bit. Authorization, on the other hand, well these are some unique permissions that the event grid supports. In using these, you can define permission levels and assign them to users so basically you get role based access control with the event grid. Let's start with authentication first. So the idea being that in webhooks, you have two different ways of…

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