Eric Vogel kicks off his series on ASP.NET Core security by showing how to set up authentication to register, log in and log out a user account in an ASP.NET Core MVC application.

Take advantage of security headers in ASP.NET Core MVC 5 to protect your website against cross-site scripting, code injection, clickjacking, and other attacks.

Figure 1. The new ASP.NET Web application project. Then select MVC for the ASP.NET project type, as seen in Figure 2. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 2. The new ASP.NET MVC project. Let's ...

Ensure that “No Authentication” is selected as we won’t be using authentication either. Click OK. This will create a new ASP.Net Core Web API project in Visual Studio.