The most important information about Customer Identity and Access Management at a glance.

JWT (Json Web Token) is an open standard that provides a compact and self-contained path for secure transmission of information between parties on the Web as a JSON object. This token can be verified and is trusted because it is digitally signed using a different standard called JWS (Json Web Token Signature). In the token's playload, additional information could be placed in self-defined data fields, and what content can be transmitted decrypted using another standard JWE (Json Web Encryption). JWT is used on the web as a standardized way to realize SSO and secure transmission of information between parties/participants (API consumers, applications, ...)