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OAuth: Custom token attributes
OAuth: Custom token attributes OAuth providers often provide extended functionality to clients, depending on individual requirements. This extended functionality often requires additional information to be stored with an OAuth grant. This article is going into how ISAM allows you to store additional information and metadata against an OAuth grant. The number of scenarios which can […]
Open ID Connect: Sharing identity information with Applications
Open ID Connect: Sharing identity information with Applications When developing modern web applications, information about the user is essential for providing a rich user experience. There are many ways in which this identity information is gathered. Applications may source user data many different ways. They may simply request the user supply user profile information on […]
OAuth: API Gateways and ISAM
OAuth: API Gateways and ISAM Today we’re going to explore the ways in which API gateways can integrate with ISAM, their different OAuth roles, and the interfaces for token validation and verification exposed by ISAM as an authorization server. ISAM has both an Authorization Server available in the form of API protection, as well as […]
The history of support for OpenID Connect in ISAM
The history of support for OpenID Connect in ISAM Security Access Manager added support for OpenID Connect as a identity provider and as a relying party in version 9.0. These capabilities were introduced as part of the federation offering which was also added in version 9.0. This OpenID connect solution was capable of satisfying the browser […]
OAuth: SAML and JWT as a Grant Type
OAuth: SAML and JWT as a Grant Type In an earlier article it was demonstrated how Security Access Manager supports RFC 7523 using JWT as a method for OAuth clients to make requests to OAuth endpoints which require authentication such as /token and /introspect. However there is another portion to this RFC which goes into detail on […]
ISAM and Single Paged (SPA) Applications
Updated: 13th May 2019 to discuss the content type aware responses in ISAM (9.0.6 release end of 2018) We’ve been having some conversations recently about the best way to achieve an authentication solution when implementing a single paged (SPA) app. In this piece we’re going to cover several recommendations, best practices and tweaks which can […]
OpenID Connect: Request parameters via JWT
OpenID Connect: Request parameters via JWT The OpenID Connect specification has an optional section which goes into details of how a client can provide(Via the browser) a claims and OAuth parameters to /authorize in an alternative manner to query string or post parameter. This is of note as it allows the client to provide a trusted set […]
OAuth: JWT as an Access Token
OAuth: JWT as an Access Token on ISAM The OAuth 2.0 specification does not go into great detail about token formats “Access tokens can have different formats, structures, and methods of utilization (e.g., cryptographic properties) based on the resource server security requirements”. On IBM Security Access manager(ISAM) access tokens issued are a short opaque string used as […]
OAuth: Device Flows
OAuth: Device Flows Introduction to Device Flows As IOT devices become more prevalent, so does the importance of the way these devices interact with user information and the web. These devices often need to call APIs which require authentication, but cannot provide a suitable method of user interaction in order for traditional authentication mechanisms such as username/password. […]
OAuth: Dynamic Client Registration
OAuth: Dynamic Client Registration When hosting services via API or propagating identities to relying parties, OAuth and OpenID Connect are an essential way of granting authentication and authorization to a consumer, on behalf of a user. Depending on the size of this provider, the number of consumers may be huge, so much so that it […]
OAuth: Building a developer portal
OAuth: Developer Portal Create a self-service portal for OAuth clients to significantly reduce costs for ISAM administrators OAuth as a protocol delegates the authorization decision to the resource owner, which means that the consumer of a given resource does not need to be explicitly permitted to access that resource up to the moment that […]
OAuth: Client Authentication using JWT
OAuth: Client Authentication using JWT Client authentication with a JWT is a requirement of the UK OpenBanking standard, as per Section 5.2.2 of the Open Banking Security Profile V1.1.2 it is considered a stonger and safer method of authentication than client_id and client_secret. This method does not require the client_secret to be sent in the request […]