The Keycloak-Token-Configuration Mistake, 90% of All Developers Do (and How To Avoid... Niko Köbler
Presenters Niko Köbler Source KeycloakCon Europe 2026 🛡️ Stop Building “God Tokens”: Avoiding the Top Keycloak Mistakes At the first-ever KeycloakCon in Amsterdam, industry veteran Niko Köbler dropped a bombshell: 90% of Keycloak developers are making critical mistakes in their configuration. Having worked with Keycloak since its infancy in 2015, Niko has seen it all—from massive enterprise LDAP migrations to modern microservices architectures. If your application “just works,” you might think you’re safe. But in the world of identity and access management, “working” and “secure” are two very different things. Here is how to stop issuing dangerous God tokens and start implementing professional-grade security. ...