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In web applications, you try to decide when to use either JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) or sessions (cookies) for authentication. When you browse the web you use HTTP, which is a stateless protocol. So, the only way to remember the states of your application is using either sessions or tokens.
\nThis article deep dives into:
\nDeciding to choose between JWT or session is not just choosing one over the other. You need to look at some factors to determine which one to use in an application. In order to figure this out, you need to compare both approaches -- JWT and session -- to authenticate users.
\nThis article starts with how server-side sessions with a session store work, then looks at how client-side sessions with JWT work.
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Suppose, you have a website with a login form. You enter your email ID and password, and your browser sends a request to the server. Your server compares the password hashes, and if those hashes match, a session is created with a specific session ID. Then, the server returns a cookie with the session ID and the cookie is HTTP only, so it can not be read by any javascript that is not yours. It is also secured so that the cookie is never transferred over an insecure connection; that is, something that is not encrypted. Otherwise, someone can intercept the communication, like a man in the middle attack.
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If you make a follow-up request, your browser automatically sends this cookie along. Take a look at the session ID and fish it out.
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Instead of creating a session in your session store, you check whether the password hashes match. And if they do match, you can just create a JSON signature token and the token is signed with the secret. If someone tries to modify the payload, you will know and the signature validation will fail.
\nYou can return the web signature token that can be put in a cookie, which is way better. Because, if you don't do that, there is a possibility that a third-party javascript can access it.
\nImagine a scenario in which a bank customer's info has been breached and the customer calls the bank to lock the account. This will be an issue if the bank uses JWT for authentication as JWT is stateless. Although you can find a workaround to do this by introducing state, it just defeats the purpose of having a JWT token in the first place, standing a chance of logging everyone out including the customer.
\nWith Sessions, logging out that one particular customer won’t be a problem at all as the customer's state is stored.
\nWhen using server-side sessions, you don't know who is currently logged into your application as this can be useful to inflict the history of what a person is currently doing. It’s a better idea to use sessions in industries like health care, banking, insurance, or companies that deal with money. It's also good to note that JWT is signed and anyone can read it or get an idea of how data or ID is structured, or how many rows data has, which is not the case for sessions as the data is not visible to users.
\nSession cookies take up very little bandwidth, whereas the bandwidth consumption will be higher in the JWT-based approach because the tokens tend to get bigger and you have the signature you have to send along for each follow up request; whereas if you have the session cookie, it's really small because its just the session ID that is being sent over.
\nA lot of breaches that happen in companies is a result of an internal breach from an employee or insider that is stealing data or doing weird things. It is really important to be able to revoke privileges immediately. Imagine a scenario where one person is locked in and has admin rights. Say, the token is valid for ten minutes or so. If for whatever reason you don't want that person to have admin privileges anymore, you can easily revoke the person's access if you use sessions, but might find it difficult if you use JSON web tokens.
\nThis section discusses the advantages of using JWT over sessions and scenarios where sessions do not cut it.
\nOne of the “issues” with sessions is scalability. The argument is that sessions are stored in memory and servers are duplicated to handle the application load, therefore, limiting the scalability of the application. JWT, on the other hand, has higher scalability due to its statelessness. If you use a load balancer, you can easily pass along your users to several servers without worrying, as there is no state or session data stored anywhere, making it easy for gigantic scale workloads like that of Google and Facebook.
\nA downside of the sessions is their maintainability, as the sessions need to be maintained. Somewhere on someone's server, a record will need to be created every time a user is authenticated. This is done in memory. The more the users are authenticated, the greater the overhead on your server. There is no need for maintainability in JWT as no state is stored, making it a better choice in this scenario.
\nWhen using sessions in an applications, there will come a time when you need to scale or expand the data for it to be used on multiple devices. Then, you'll need to worry about things like cross-origin resource sharing or even forbidden requests.
\nBut with JWT, you don't have to bother about CORS as you can provide data to all sorts of devices and applications. Setting up a quick header configuration gets rid of any CORS problem you would have encountered.
\nAccess-Control-Allow-Origin: *As long as a valid user has a valid token, data and resources are made available from any domain.
\nYou can easily allow selective permissions for third-party applications with the help of JWT. Say, you build an application that you like to share permissions with other applications; for instance, sharing a video you watched on Facebook to friends on Instagram. You can also get creative building APIs that hand the special tokens to other applications so that user data can be accessed.
\nAuth tokens are usually sent over the network and as such are vulnerable to attack. These kinds of attacks are:
\nAlthough it may seem that these types of attacks are not likely to happen, it's important to take security seriously and implement appropriate measures. The vulnerability of the system is based on the cumulative probabilities of all the types of attacks. In some ways, you can mitigate the above attacks:
\nDatabase and filesystem access: To control damage caused by unauthorized access to your database or filesystem, you could do the following:
\nSome people who use JSON web tokens return the token and store it in local storage. This can be very dangerous as third party javascript, browser extensions, and malicious CDN scripts can have access to the token. But if you put it in a cookie, no javascript access, or even you has access to it.
\nAnother thing to note is that when using cookies, you need to mitigate CSRF. Preventing it most of the time will have to do with installing a library and writing a few lines of code.
\nIn the article, you've learned the differences in using sessions and JSON web tokens for authentication, how serverside session store works, the advantages of sessions over JWT, and other things concerning the structure of JWT.
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\nHowever, the key aspect determining whether these projects are a failure or a success is the involvement of civilians living and working in that city.
\nUndoubtedly, civilian engagement is a significant factor that can offer valuable insights to enhance the current services that pave the path for the region’s overall development.
\nBut the big question is how to enhance civilian engagement?
\nWell, delivering a flawless user experience and online services can help increase civilian engagement.
\nThe key lies in leveraging a robust identity management solution that delivers a great user experience to citizens across multiple platforms and devices and ensures adequate security and privacy.
\nLet’s understand the role of digital identity for smart cities in improving civilians’ digital experience through unified identity.
\nWith population growth and the expansion of public services, cities need to be innovative about providing services to all people without compromising service quality. There is a need for a single platform where all facilities are centralized, and customer experience is considered.
\nDigital identity is a great way to get started as it can prove a citizen’s identity through diverse government channels and is crucial for citizens to avail government services.
\nAs the government invokes the potential of secure digital identities, citizens would access core services and resources without any hassle.
\nMoreover, every citizen requires some kind of public service, and that’s why handling a unique number of identities securely becomes a tough nut to crack for the government. Here’s where the need for digital identity management comes into play.
\nA smart CIAM (consumer identity and access management) solution like LoginRadius helps public sector organizations manage heaps of identities efficiently without hampering user experience.
\nLet’s learn how a CIAM solution like LoginRadius can deliver a flawless digital experience to civilians that pushes overall development reinforced by adequate security.
\nCities need one unified self-service portal so that their constituents have a seamless, efficient experience as they access the services they need. The LoginRadius Identity Platform enables cities to centralize their customer-facing digital applications into one portal.
\nThis portal enables a frictionless experience across multiple services that improve user experience and enhance user engagement.
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\nThis single locus of access delivers a connected experience across multiple touchpoints and channels. LoginRadius has supported applications such as Account Summary, Customer Profile, Permit Applications, and Bill Payment.
What good is a centralized portal if citizens create multiple identities for individual web and mobile applications? Operating in this way creates identity silos that prevent a thorough view of the customer’s journey and preferences, which means the customer experience can’t be optimized for each individual.
\nWithout a seamless user experience, engagement rates drop. But with LoginRadius Single Sign-on (SSO), cities and companies can allow customers to access all applications within their platform with a single set of unified credentials, rather than having to register and log in to each service separately.
\nMany public sector organizations have a hard time using customer data to improve the digital experience.
\nThe LoginRadius Identity Platform offers pre-built integrations with over 150 third-party applications such as CRM, email marketing tools, online communities, payment systems, and more.
\nThis enables organizations to use that customer data to understand their customers better, offer more useful information and deliver that information more directly.
\nHydro Ottawa is a regulated electricity local distribution company in eastern Ontario.
\nAs the third-largest municipally-owned electric utility in Ontario, Hydro Ottawa maintains one of the safest, most reliable, and most cost-effective electricity distribution systems in the province. They serve about 332,000 residential and commercial customers across 1,116 square kilometers.
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The Hydro Ottawa team wanted to create a solid architectural foundation for digital growth and innovation. They decided that the core of this new system would be a customer identity solution that centralizes and unifies customer identity data.
\nWith the launch of their mobile app and a revamp of their customer web portal underway, Hydro Ottawa needed an SSO solution to log in with a single profile that included social media validation.
\nDigital identity is paving the path for a rich unified experience for citizens that require public services in daily routines.
\nRobust consumer identity and access management solutions like LoginRadius can help public sectors deliver great experiences tacked by adequate security to their civilians, reinforcing different smart city projects.
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The modern digital landscape demands robust security, which significantly relies on access tokens that securely authenticate users.
\nA token plays a crucial role in enhancing the overall security mechanism of an organization that helps to deliver flawless and secure authentication and authorization on their website or application.
\nFor years, businesses have been using token-based authentication that allows users to access resources. These tokens have a minimal lifetime, ensuring that cybercriminals have minimum time to exploit a user’s identity.
\nWith token security, users have to re-authenticate themselves for obvious security reasons by offering credentials to sign in if the access token is expired.
\nHowever, this can be tedious and hampers user experience. To overcome this, the concept of refresh tokens was introduced.
\nA refresh token ensures that a user can regain the access token without providing login credentials.
\nLet’s dig deeper about refresh tokens, their use, and how they interact with JWTs (JSON Web Token).
\nA token can be defined as a digitally encoded signature used to authenticate and authorize a user to access specific resources on a network.
\nA token is always generated in the form of an OTP (One-Time Password), which depicts that it could only be used once and is generated randomly for every transaction.
\nThe token-based authentication allows users to verify their unique identity, and in return, they receive a special token that provides access to specific resources for a particular time frame.
\nApart from this, users can easily access the website or network for which the token is issued and need not enter the credentials again and again until the token expires.
\nTokens are widely used for regular online transactions for enhancing overall security and accuracy.
\nSince access tokens aren’t valid for an extended period because of security reasons, a refresh token helps re-authenticate a user without the need for login credentials.
\nThe primary purpose of a refresh token is to get long-term access to an application on behalf of a particular user.
\nIn a nutshell, a refresh token allows any website or application to regrant the access token without bothering the user. Here are its benefits:
\nJWT (JSON Web Token) is used to provide a standard way for two parties to communicate securely. JWT is commonly used for managing authorization.
\nThere is an open industry standard called RFC-7519, which defines how JWT should be structured and how to use it to exchange information (called “claims”) in the form of JSON objects. This information can be verified and trusted as it is digitally signed.
\nJWT (JSON Web Token) is a popular method of SSO, which is widely used by B2C applications, and through this system, you can allow your consumers to log in to an application that supports JWT.
\nBefore inching towards refresh tokens, one should understand that OAuth 2.0 specifications define both access tokens and refresh tokens.
\nEnterprises can leverage a refresh token in scenarios where the API needs authentication through an access token but users aren’t always available to provide credentials again and again.
\nHence, to enhance usability and improve user experience, refresh tokens can be used.
\nAlso read: Working With Industry Authorization: A Beginner's Guide to OAuth 2.0
\nSince browser-based web applications cannot start using a refresh token, refresh tokens always require additional security.
\nWhenever a refresh token is being utilized, the security token service quickly issues another access token and a new refresh token. The user can now make API calls through a refresh token.
\nWhenever the overall security token service suspects that any refresh token is being used more than once, it automatically assumes something isn’t right. As a result, the refresh token gets immediately revoked and hence ensures adequate security.
\nRBA (Risk-based Authentication) can be the finest way to enhance the security of a refresh token since it helps to analyze a vulnerability and automatically adds another stringent security layer in the mechanism.
\nRBA works seamlessly with token-based authentication and can help improve overall security in high-risk scenarios where businesses need a stringent mechanism to prevent a security breach.
\nJWTs represent a set of claims as JSON objects encoded in a JWS and JWE structure. This JSON object is called “JWT Claims Set.” The JSON object consists of zero or more name/value pairs (or members), where the names are strings, and the values are arbitrary JSON values. These members are the claims represented by the JWT.
\nYour JWTs can contain any information you want; the user's name, birth date, email, etc. You do this with claims-based authorization. You then just tell your provider to make a JWT with these claims from the claims principle.
\nAuthentication is implemented through JWT access tokens along with refresh tokens. The API returns a short-lived token (JWT), which expires in 15 minutes, and in HTTP cookies, the refresh token expires in 7 days.
\nJWT is currently used for accessing secure ways on API, whereas a refresh token generates another new JWT access token when it expires or even before.
\nRefresh tokens can be the ideal way to enhance security and improve user experience since users need not enter login credentials again and again.
\nLoginRadius helps enterprises get maximum benefits in terms of security, scalability, and usability when implementing token-based authentication on web and mobile devices.
\nBusinesses can leverage LoginRadius’ authentication and authorization services for a seamless experience that fosters business growth. Schedule a call today!
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Hi, I am the Senior Operations Manager and feel really proud of being a part of the socially responsible company, LoginRadius.
\nThe concept of CSR is essentially based on the notion that organizations should not only strive to optimize profits and shareholder value but should also make a conscientious effort to minimize or eliminate impact on the environment and society.
\nSociety has changed how it interacts with companies. Consumers have become more aware and educated about the impact that businesses have on society. They are looking for corporations that positively address the needs of society.
\nAt LoginRadius, we check all the boxes in the category with our sustainable and thriving Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) culture. The company has been carrying out CSR activities since its inception and has been focused on giving back in any way possible to society.
\nLoginRadius is a leading cloud-based CIAM solution that empowers organizations to deliver a delightful consumer experience. The company was established in 2012 by Mr. Rakesh Soni and is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Jaipur and Hyderabad, India.
\nThe company offers customizable login interfaces, open-source SDKs, best-in-class data security products, and integrations with over 150 third-party applications. We are already loved by 3,000 businesses with 1.17 billion consumers worldwide and raised $17 million in Series A funding from Microsoft.
\nIn addition to focusing on economic growth, the founders also have a personal desire to contribute to the community. According to them, it is imperative to integrate social and environmental concerns into the organization and support the community. They also believe in strengthening the roles and responsibilities of the employee to drive the CSR Program.
\nI will always be thankful to them for encouraging me to voice my views on carrying out the CSR exercises.
\nAs we strive to contribute towards a better future, we have partnered with Naya Savera, a socially oriented organization that aims to empower economically backward communities.
\nWe always focus on our employees to make a difference in the community. This allows them to volunteer or give back to their community. For example, our Dhan Utsav is an event where we encourage employees to donate clothes, toys, shoes, stationery, utensils, etc., to the kids of Naya Savera in the spirit of Diwali.
\nOur Kick for a Cause initiative is a one-day friendly football tournament to raise funds for underprivileged women. We also help them sell their handicrafts by hosting exhibits in various hotspots within Jaipur.
\nThrough Naya Savera and Kartavya NOG, we're currently supporting the education of ten and five children respectively each year, and we're committed to giving more children a chance at a great education in the coming years.
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We also extended a helping hand to people by financially supporting them at times of economic breakdown and unemployment.
\nWe extended our support at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, which led the central and state governments to announce lockdowns from March 2020 throughout the country. This economic slump led to thousands of people losing their jobs and creating a financial crunch in many families.
\nDuring this challenging time when it was difficult for the poor and unemployed to arrange food for themselves, we distributed ration to 200 families of laborers, construction workers, and local migrants who live in slum areas of Jaipur with the help of local NGOs.
\nApart from our community initiatives, we are proud to contribute significantly to the PM Cares Fund.
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I remember the day when I joined LoginRadius. My first impression was that it was a beautiful, diligent company, and everyone in the organization was very dynamic, humble, and driven with a commitment to excellence. I am proud that I stand true to my option to this day.
\nEngaging in civic and social activities also re-energizes us in the workplace. The more we participate in these activities, the better we feel about our work. We gain a sense of accomplishment that we have contributed something toward the welfare of others.
\nWe are an organization that's committed to working for the good of the people. We believe in community development and will continue to make a difference.
\nI feel honored to be a part of the LoginRadius family :)
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Wi-Fi is utilized by people globally since it has become an integral part of our fast-paced everyday lives. But, there's no such thing as 100% security or being hacker-proof. However, there are simple steps you can take to safeguard your privacy and data security that are pretty easy and straightforward.
\nThis particular article will discuss some tips to reduce the likelihood of hackers stealing your personal data when you connect to Wi-Fi.
\nWi-Fi is a modern technology that uses a wireless networking connection. It allows devices like computers, laptops, mobile, or others to share its network with other networking devices.
\nThese days, internet connectivity occurs via wireless routers. Therefore, when you access Wi-Fi, you will be connecting to a wireless router which allows your Wi-Fi-compatible devices to interface or link with the internet.
\nWi-Fi is not an acronym. Instead, the brand name is designed by a marketing firm meant to serve as a middleware seal for commercializing efforts.
\nWi-Fi uses radio waves to impart information between your device and a router via frequencies. Two radio-wave frequencies are utilized depending on the amount of data being sent.
\nThe two Wi-Fi frequencies are separated into multiple channels to prevent high traffic and interference. When you access the network on your device, the information you provided is converted into binary code, which is the language of the computers.
\nNext, the Wi-Fi router connected to the device receives frequencies that travel across the radio station. Finally, the router receives the data through a hardwired internet cable.
\nSome changes and routines can be implemented that protect you from intruders, snoopers, and internet carpetbaggers. You should always make a control if anyone gets on your network.
\nThe next problem is the signal footprint. If anyone can pick up a signal from your router, they can also grasp data and gather all the passwords.
\nFollowing are the ten tips to ensure your Wi-Fi is private and blocking hackers.
\nPasswords play an important role in maintaining security. Regularly, you can change the username and password because there is no rule regarding how often you change the router password.
\nYou can also access your router’s configuration page via a web browser connected to your network.
\nModern Wi-Fi routers include the ‘Guest network’ option with its SSID and password. In this case, you don’t want to share your primary password. Meanwhile, guests can also connect to the Internet with their devices.
\nEncryption is the security process that clambers the information that you send over the Internet. Most of the Wi-Fi routers have built-in encryption. You can set your security type using wireless encryption like WPA and WPA2.
\nVPN is commonly known as Virtual Private Network (VPN). They provide primary security benefits that protect your router from interloping. Use of Wi-Fi hotspots in public places along with VPN will preserve your device from spammers.
\nHackers may also use “Man-in-the-middle” to plunder your data that is connected to the same network. When you use this device in the home, the possibility of targeting your router is high.
\nWhenever you set up a connection with a password, ensure that the network is hidden from view. Hiding your network will help you to block visitors from getting on the network.
\nOpen settings, select basic wireless settings from menus, set SSID Broadcast to disabled, and click the save settings option to hide your SSID.
\nSome issues relating to not hiding could be extensive use of Wi-fi which could result in DNS error. You can fix DNS Error 80710102 by disabling universal plug-n-play or the media connection.
\nWhenever you leave home, make sure that the Wi-Fi network is turned off. It is better to unplug your device from connection because, without a network connection, cyberpunks can’t steal your data.
\nA Firewall acts as a shield in the process of separating your device from the Internet. Some openings called ports may communicate with your device. At this point, the firewall arrests those ports and prevents your device from hackers.
\nYou can also use other security software like antivirus programs. In the view of the business sector, Hardware firewalls are appreciable. Software firewalls are widely used for home users since they are cheap.
\nThe signal from the router radiates in all directions. So placing the router in the center of the room provides more security.
\nHowever, if you place the router near the window, the signal may also move outside. So the possibility of tracing your signal is high. You may also keep the router in a cardboard box or the antennas covered by foil to prevent these issues.
\nConsole router of every device will contain a technique called ‘MAC Filtering or MAC addresses filtering.’ Every connected device has a MAC address, and the identifier of the network card is unique.
\nYou can also access this through Advanced network filters. You can find your MAC Address here.
\nThe router’s console can be accessed only when the devices are connected to the network. A standard router provides you remote access. To prevent your device from hackers:
\nViruses and malware may infect many devices because they are connected to the public network. Always check the files before transferring them to the computer since they may also contain a virus.
\nTo maintain the system with firewalls and anti-malware software. Always keep the software updated. Make sure that the portable devices are safe.
\nMany hackers are using different methods like ransomware and identity theft. To avoid all these issues, you can make some changes by practicing these tips.\n
The ever-expanding competitive business landscape demands enterprises to deliver rich consumer experiences from the moment they interact with the brand for the first time.
\nThis means if an organization fails to impress the visitor in the first place, they’ll surely lose a potential customer since competitors in every field are just a few clicks away.
\nProgressive disclosure plays a crucial role in enhancing the onboarding experience as it defers rarely used or advanced features for secondary screens that help make applications easier to learn.
\nIn the context of the onboarding process for a product, it refers to disclosing features or options as the user gradually navigates through the overall process.
\nProgressive disclosure helps businesses portray essential information initially and then gradually uncover the rest of the features that ensure users aren’t overburdened and that their purpose is solved.
\nLet’s understand what progressive disclosure is, why businesses strictly need to put their best foot forward to adopt progressive disclosure, and how LoginRadius helps pave the path for a successful onboarding process.
\nProgressive disclosure is an innovative interaction design pattern that sequences information and various actions across different screens.
\nThe purpose is to enhance conversion rates by ensuring users don’t switch to competitors just because they aren’t getting relevant information when they first interact with a brand.
\nIn a nutshell, progressive disclosure interaction design pattern provides a quick overview of features/content of an application that helps users make better decisions.
\nWith technology offering new horizons to businesses, modern applications and websites are becoming more complex. The more features and functionality we add to our business website/application, the more its interface becomes complex.
\nExcessive information/choices eventually make users feel dissatisfied as it hampers their first experience with the product.
\nHere’s where progressive disclosure comes into play.
\nUsers always choose the most effortless path to get a job done. They won’t spend an extra second to scroll through and find what they’re actually looking for.
\nIf a business website/application isn’t able to convince them that they have landed at the right spot within the first interaction of a user, they’ll end up losing a potential client.
\nProgressive disclosure helps build a seamless experience for users while portraying the necessary information regarding the features and capabilities of a product that helps build trust in a user in the initial yet crucial few seconds of their interaction.
\nIn other words, progressive disclosure streamlines baseline experience as it hides details from users until they need or ask to see them.
\nLet’s understand this thing through a real-life example.
\nAn e-Commerce website contains thousands of products. For these thousands of products, there can be thousands of customers or even more.
\nIt becomes technically impossible for the vendor to mention all the products on the website’s landing page to please every user that lands on their website. The e-Commerce store places mega menus (drop-down menus) that contain specific categories of products to overcome this. This arrangement saves more space for essential elements, including the search bar and promotional offer banners.
\nThis arrangement helps everyone, including the buyers and sellers, as users can quickly navigate to their desired product category, choose their product, and make a purchase.
\nWe’ve learned a lot about progressive disclosure and have a fair idea about its importance and implementation.
\nLet’s now look at one of the essential elements that combine with progressive disclosure to help improve customer onboarding and enhance conversions.
\nProgressive Profiling is an intelligent feature that gradually gathers data from customers in an automated way.
\nProgressive profiling for customer registration allows you to split a potentially complicated registration process into multiple steps. You can capture a customer’s information upfront and then slowly build out a holistic view of that customer through subsequent actions.
\nThe benefit of progressive profiling is that it requests permissions for a customer’s data at various stages of their life cycle rather than all at once.
\nYou can establish a greater level of trust with your customers as you only request their personal data when needed and not just every time they interact with your brand.
\nLoginRadius’ progressive profiling helps businesses seamlessly enhance conversion rates through a rich consumer onboarding experience.
\nProgressive disclosure and progressive profiling both alone can help improve customer onboarding, but when you combine them in a single application, the results are marvelous.
\nOver the years, business giants are leveraging both components in designing rich consumer experiences that improve first interaction with the brand and eventually ensure that the user enters the sales funnel and becomes a customer.
\nWith LoginRadius’ Progressive Profiling, you can continually build richer profiles as you earn customers’ trust.
\nThe smart feature allows you to collect first-party data from your customers gradually, allowing you to build trust before you ask for too much personally identifiable information.
\nWith many people now wary of the ever-growing list of companies that have fallen prey to data breaches, customers are more reluctant to hand over too much sensitive information.
\nLoginRadius’ Progressive Profiling module allows you to decide what information you collect on each visit so you can increase your conversion rate and build customer profiles over time.
\nProgressive disclosure is an inevitable element for a successful consumer onboarding process that leads to conversion.
\nHowever, leveraging the advancements of Progressive Profiling makes things work flawlessly and paces the conversion rates as users enjoy interacting with brands and sharing insights.
\nLoginRadius’ Progressive profiling is helping thousands of businesses to streamline their onboarding process to enhance conversion rates.
\nIf you wish to see the future of progressive profiling and progressive disclosure in action, contact us now.
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Identity is evolving, and developers are at the forefront of this transformation. Every day brings a new learning—adapting to new standards and refining approaches to building secure, seamless experiences.
\nWe’re here to support developers on that journey. We know how important simplicity, efficiency, and well-structured documentation are when working with identity and access management solutions. That’s why we’ve redesigned the LoginRadius website—to be faster, more intuitive, and developer-first in every way.
\nThe goal? Having them spend less time searching and more time building.
\nLoginRadius’ vision is to give developers a product that simplifies identity management so they can focus on building, deploying, and scaling their applications. To enhance this experience, we’ve spent the last few months redesigning our interface— making navigation more intuitive and reassuring that essential resources are easily accessible.
\nHere’s a closer look at what’s new and why it’s important:
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Developers spend long hours working in dark-themed IDEs and terminals, so we’ve designed the LoginRadius experience to be developer-friendly and align with that preference.
\nThe new dark mode reduces eye strain, enhances readability, and provides a seamless transition between a coding environment and our platform. Our new design features a clean, modern aesthetic with a consistent color scheme and Barlow typography, ensuring better readability. High-quality graphics and icons are thoughtfully placed to enhance the content without adding visual clutter.
\nSo, whether you’re navigating our API docs or configuring authentication into your system, our improved interface will make those extended development hours more comfortable and efficient.
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We’ve restructured our website to provide a straightforward breakdown of our customer identity and access management platform capabilities, helping you quickly find what you need:
\nThis structured layout ensures you can quickly understand each capability and how it integrates into your identity ecosystem.
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We’ve been analyzing developer workflows to identify how you access key resources. That’s why we redesigned our navigation with one goal in mind: to reduce clicks and make essential resources readily available.
\nThe new LoginRadius structure puts APIs, SDKs, and integration guides right at the menu bar under the Developers dropdown so you can get started faster. Our Products, Solutions, and Customer Services are also clearly categorized, helping development teams quickly find the right tools and make informed decisions.
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Developers now have a clear view of the tech stack available with LoginRadius, designed to support diverse business needs.
\nOur platform offers pre-built SDKs for Node.js, Python, Java, and more, making CIAM integration seamless across popular programming languages and frameworks.
\nCheck out our revamped LoginRadius website and see how the improved experience makes it easier to build, scale, and secure your applications.
\nDo not forget to explore the improved navigation and API documentation, and get started with our free trial today. We’re excited to see what you’ll build with LoginRadius!
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