Administering application security

  • Setting up, enabling and migrating security

    You must address several issues prior to authenticating users, authorizing access to resources, securing applications, and securing communications. These security issues include migration, interoperability, and installation.

  • Configuring multiple security domains

    By default, all administrative and user applications in WebSphere® Application Server use the global security configuration. For example, a user registry defined in global security is used to authenticate users for every application in the cell. Out-of-the-box, this behavior is the same as it was in previous releases of WebSphere Application Server. You can create additional WebSphere security domains if you want to specify different security attributes for some or all of your user applications. This section describes how to configure a security domain by using the administrative console.

  • Authenticating users

    The process of authenticating users involves a user registry and an authentication mechanism. Optionally, you can define trust between WebSphere Application Server and a proxy server, configure single sign-on capability, and specify how to propagate security attributes between application servers.

  • Authorizing access to resources

    WebSphere Application Server provides many different methods for authorizing accessing resources. For example, you can assign roles to users and configure a built-in or external authorization provider.

  • Securing communications

    WebSphere Application Server provides several methods to secure communication between a server and a client.

  • Auditing the security infrastructure

    You can use the Auditing Facility to report and track auditable events to ensure the integrity of your system.




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