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JSON Web Token (JWT) Validation in Azure Application Gateway: Secure Your APIs at the Gate

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Pierre_Roman
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Dec 19, 2025

If you work in infrastructure long enough, you start to see security patterns repeat themselves. We harden servers, restrict access, apply firewalls, segment networks, and then someone builds an API that becomes the new front door. Suddenly the security perimeter shifts again.

Hello Folks! In a Zero Trust world, identity becomes the control plane and tokens become the gatekeepers. Recently, in an E2E conversation with my colleague Vyshnavi Namani, we dug into a topic e...
Published Dec 19, 2025
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