Overview

The development process of most apps requires efforts devoted into, for example, building and maintaining multiple servers, to solve authentication and authorization issues. The security rules of Cloud DB simplify the user authentication and authorization, allowing you to focus on building a good user experience without managing the infrastructure or writing server-side authentication and authorization code.

The rules simply and clearly provide access control and data verification. You can combine cloud data, security rules, and authentication services to build user- and role-based access control to ensure data security and help your product succeed.

• Authentication

  Your app often needs to authenticate its users. The security rules of Cloud DB provide you with an easy-to-use and secure authentication mechanism. With simple code, the validity and authenticity of a user's identity can be easily verified. Users who pass the authentication can access the data resources, but those who fail the authentication cannot.

• Authorization

  Security rules, in a simple and clear way, allow you to control how users access data stored in a specific path through authorization. Authenticated users can access and perform operations on data stored in a specific path in Cloud DB only after they are authorized.