Software as a Service: Enforcing role based access control using WebSphere Portal Server & Tivoli Directory Server

Level: Introductory

Mary Taylor (marytaylor@us.ibm.com), Senior IT Architect, IBM

26 Sep 2007

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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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Transcript

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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

• PortalXML.doc (24KB)

Duration

Less than 10 minutes.

Resources

• Read about Portal Access Control in the developerWorks WebSphere Portal Security zone.
  
  
• developerWorks article: Securing a Composite Business Service delivered as a Software as a Service: Part 1, Secure multi-tenancy with WebSphere Portal Server
  
  
• Find resources on the WebSphere Portal zone.
  
  
• Technical resources for Tivoli software and security products.
  
  
• Get started with IBM Software as a Service programs for business partners. Link to case studies, research documents, and current events.
  
  
• Browse the technology bookstore for books on these and other technical topics.
  
  

• Download IBM product evaluation versions and get your hands on application development tools and middleware products from DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere®.

• Check out developerWorks blogs and get involved in the developerWorks community.
  
  

About the author

		Mary Taylor is a senior software engineer. She is working in the Strategic Technology Architecture and Incubation team, and she is currently working on an SOA CBS pilot. Her interests include DB2 and DataStage.

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