Play by Play: Authenticating External App and Service Integrations with Salesforce

Chuck Liddell and Don Robins show how to choose from the many options for securing external app & service integrations with Salesforce. View this course now!

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Authenticating External App and Service Integrations with Salesforce, Chuck Liddell and Don Robins demonstrate how to choose from the many options available for securing external app and service integrations with Salesforce. Learn an overview of TLS and HTTP network mechanics, Apex callouts using Named Credentials to cleanly separate code from authentication configuration, OAuth and common Salesforce OAuth flows, and authenticating inbound calls to various Salesforce APIs using both SOAP and REST. By the end of this course, you’ll have gained deep and valuable insight into the flexible and powerful authentication mechanisms available for both inbound and outbound Salesforce integrations.

Topics:

• Course Overview
• Introduction and Setting the Stage
• Calling out from Salesforce: Out of the Box
• Calling out from Salesforce: Custom Authentication Providers
• Calling into Salesforce: Configuration
• Calling into Salesforce: Demos
• Summary and Recap