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# Delegating the chores of authenticating users to Keycloak


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 11, 2025
- **Time:** 14:20–14:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 4
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** cybersecurity, privacy

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1558-delegating-the-chores-of-authenticating-users-to-keycloak)

## Description

Authenticating users can start simple with a username and a password for each user. But you will also need to handle forgotten passwords and user registration. You might also want to validate email addresses, add second factors, have users update their profile information as needed, or even offer password-less authentication.

A single-sign-on system like Keycloak can handle all that for you and will redirect users after they are authenticated to your applications using the industry standards like OpenID Connect and SAML.

Join this talk to see how you can delegate all the tasks around authentication to Keycloak. We will start simple and enable more and more features in our demo to show the functionality and flexibility of Keycloak. We will also look at features of the latest release and the road map ahead.

## Speaker

### [Alexander Schwartz](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@alexander-schwartz)

Alexander Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat


## Related talks at this congress

- [Keycloak case study: Making users happy with service level indicators and observability](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/665-keycloak-case-study) — Alexander Schwartz
- [Keymate – Modern Authorization for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/794-keymate-modern) — Halil Özkan
- [IP Authentication: A Tale of Performance Pitfalls and Challenges in Prod](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/660-ip-authentication-a) — Christoph Eicke
- [Delay the AI Overlords: How OAuth and OpenFGA Can Keep Your AI Agents from Going Rogue](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/608-delay-the-ai) — Deepu