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IBM WebSphere Application Server v7.0 Security

By : Omar P Siliceo (USD)
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IBM WebSphere Application Server v7.0 Security

By: Omar P Siliceo (USD)

Overview of this book

In these days of high-profile hacking, server security is no less important than securing your application or network. In addition many companies must comply with government security regulations. No matter how secure your application is, your business is still at risk if your server is vulnerable. Here is how you solve your WebSphere server security worries in the best possible way. This tutorial is focused towards ways in which you can avoid security loop holes. You will learn to solve issues that can cause bother when getting started with securing your IBM WebSphere Application Server v7.0 installation. Moreover, the author has documented details in an easy-to-read format, by providing engaging hands-on exercises and mini-projects. The book starts with an in-depth analysis of the global and administrative security features of WebSphere Application Server v7.0, followed by comprehensive coverage of user registries for user authentication and authorization information. Moving on you will build on the concepts introduced and get hands-on with a mini project. From the next chapter you work with the different front-end architectures of WAS along with the Secure Socket Layer protocol, which offer transport layer security through data encryption. You learn user authentication and data encryption, which demonstrate how a clear text channel can be made safer by using SSL transport to encrypt its data. The book will show you how to enable an enterprise application hosted in a WebSphere Application Server environment to interact with other applications, resources, and services available in a corporate infrastructure. Platform hardening, tuning parameters for tightening security, and troubleshooting are some of the aspects of WebSphere Application Server v7.0 security that are explored in the book. Every chapter builds strong security foundations, by demonstrating concepts and practicing them through the use of dynamic, web-based mini-projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
IBM WebSphere Application Server v7.0 Security
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Securing a web application


In this section, a mini-project will be used to enhance the understanding of the concepts described earlier in the chapter in a pragmatic way. The methodology to be followed is the declarative security approach. Get a cup of coffee and let's get to work.

Project objectives

The purpose of this mini-project is to deploy and secure a Java web application made up of three modules. Each module will be configured so that it will only be available to a segment of the users. In order to accomplish this, the project will rely on some of the concepts and assets from previous chapters.

The modules that make up this enterprise application are:

  • allemp.war: A module available to all employees of yourcompany.com

  • hronly.war: A module available only to the Human Resources department of yourcompany.com

  • open.war: A module available to anyone that authenticates to the server yourcompany.com

  • CommonAssets.war: An optional module which contains a component that could be use by any...