What is claim based authentication

Claims-based authentication is a mechanism which defines how applications acquire identity information about users. When a user tries to access a restricted section of Kentico, for example the administration interface, the system redirects the user to a logon page of an Identity provider.

What is claim based authentication in SharePoint?

For claims-based authentication, SharePoint Server automatically changes all user accounts to claims identities. This changes results in a security token (also known as a claims token) for each user. The claims token contains the claims pertaining to the user. Windows accounts are converted into Windows claims.

What is a claim in authorization?

Claim based authorization checks are declarative - the developer embeds them within their code, against a controller or an action within a controller, specifying claims which the current user must possess, and optionally the value the claim must hold to access the requested resource.

What is a claim based access?

CBAC is an access control paradigm that uses the claims to make access-control decisions to resources. In Windows, CBAC is built on the conditional ACEs feature, not only to use the user claims, but also to use the resource claims, which are referred to as resource properties, in order to make access control decisions.

What is claims-based identity model?

Claims-based identity is a means of authenticating an end user, application or device to another system in a way that abstracts the entity's specific information while providing data that authorizes it for appropriate and relevant interactions.