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Identity Authentication and Access Control

Identity authentication

You can access CDN through the CDN console, APIs, or SDK. Regardless of the access method, requests are sent through the REST APIs provided by CDN. You can access CDN APIs only after successful authentication. For details, see Authentication.

Access control

  • CDN works with Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM is a basic Huawei Cloud service. It provides permissions management to help you control access to CDN. With IAM, you can add users to a user group and configure policies to control their access to CDN resources. You can allow or deny access to a specific CDN resource in a fine-grained manner. For details about access permissions for CDN resources, see CDN Permissions Management.
  • CDN supports referer validation. You can configure filter policies to filter out requests from specific access sources.
  • CDN supports IP access control lists (ACLs). You can configure filter policies to filter out requests from specific IP addresses.
  • CDN supports User-Agent ACLs. You can configure filter policies to filter out requests from specific proxies.
  • CDN supports token validation. You can protect your site resources from malicious download.
Parent topic: Security