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Enforcing security in a Software as a Service application

Enforcing role based access control using WebSphere Portal Server & Tivoli Directory Server

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Mary Taylor (marytaylor@us.ibm.com), Consulting IT Specialist, IBM

26 Sep 2007

See how WebSphere® Portal access control features can be exploited for enforcing security in a SaaS application by restricting the set of portal pages and portlets that a particular user can access, based on the role of the user.

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Sample implementation artifact for building SaaS solutions on IBM middleware

A code snippet from a WebSphere Portal Server XML access script. This code sample shows a mapping of the editor role for the SaasBankInterestRatesCustomerPortlet to the LDAP group in the sample banking application: cn=wpsadmins,cn=groups,dc=bank1,dc=com


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Author Photo: Mary Taylor

Mary is an IT Specialist in the Strategic Technology Architecture and Incubation team in Software Group. She's been in IBM for over 20 years. She's currently working in the SOA area, focusing on how to compose Composite Business Services (CBS) in a Software as a Service (SaaS) environment.




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