OutSystems Security Specialization

In this session, Maggie Tiroly is continuing her training series to help developers prepare to take various OutSystems certifications. Today, Maggie presented key information and practice quizzes for acing the Security Specialization Certification.

We learned that we must first have our Reactive Developer Certification before being able to take the exam. We also learned the exam primarily focuses on Authentication, Vulnerabilities, and Fundamentals of security while building OutSystems applications.

One of the topics from the exam that Maggie explained was how to customize an external authentication in our applications.

• The first step to customize an external authentication is to isolate the Login logic from the Template into an Authentication library.

• The second step is to go to the isolated Login logic from the Template and change it to authenticate with the external system.

• Finally, the user is updated and logged in locally in OutSystems because a user session is created and the user stays authenticated in future requests.

In all, it was a very entertaining and informative Knowledge Exchange.