If you have ever setup Anti-forgery tokens in ASP.NET Core, or added cookie authentication to ASP.NET Core Identity, you have relied on ASP.NET Data Protection. With a design philosophy of being easy to use and with simple or no configuration, ASP.NET Core Data Protection offers industry standard methods of protecting your sensitive data, and it's available for both .NET and .NET Framework.

Join me as we look at how to protect your data via the near fool proof IDataProtector and how to setup Data Protection from the simplest "it just works" scenario to sharing keys between different services or load balanced instances using Azure Key Vault. For when Azure Key Vault is not an option we'll look at how to persist and share keys to file a system or a database. And if nothing existing works for you, with the extensibility APIs there's always the option of building your own key repository.