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Securing WebLogic Server 12c

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Securing WebLogic Server 12c

Overview of this book

Security is a must in modern Enterprise architecture, and WebLogic implements a very complete and complex architecture for configuration and implementation, and we need to deeply know in technologies, terminology and how the security process works between all actors. Transparent security of your applications and Weblogic infrastructure need a good knowledge of the issues you can incur in this long and error prone configuration process. "Securing WebLogic Server 12c" will simplify a complex world like WebLogic Security, helping the reader to implement and configure. It's the only fast guide that will let you develop and deploy in a production system with best practices both from the development world and the operation world. This book will try to make a clear picture of Java EE Security with clean and simple step-by-step examples that will guide the reader to security implementation and configuration From the concepts of Java EE Security to the development of secure application, from the configuration of a realm to the setup of Kerberos Single Sign on, every concept is expressed in simple terms and surrounded by examples and pictures. Finally, also a way to develop WebLogic Security Providers with Maven, so that you can add the security part of your infrastructure to your enterprise best practices.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Configuration of local LDAP server: user/roles/lockout


The simplest way to configure your security realm is through the WebLogic Administration Console; you can find all about security in the section, on the main tree, Security Realms, where the default configuration called myrealm is placed.

Under Security Realms, we have a preconfigured subset of Users, Groups, Authentication methods, Role Mapping, Credential Mapping providers, and some other security settings.

You can configure many realms' security sets, but only one will be active.

On the myrealm section, we find all security parameters of the internal LDAP server configurations, including users and groups.

Consider this; Oracle declares that the embedded WebLogic LDAP server works well with less than 10,000 users; for more users, consider using a different LDAP server and Authentication Provider, for example, an Active Directory Server.

Users and groups

Obviously, here you can add and configure some internal users and some internal groups...