Course Catalog

In this video, Scott Exton provides an overview of the WebSEAL and AAC updates in IBM Security Verify Access 10.0.1.

In this video, you learn how to connect IBM Security Verify Access as an identity source for IBM Security Verify.

This Open Mic session by technical support agents Gianluca Gargaro and Raffaele Sperandeo describes possible single sign-on strategies when protecting IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence Service Desk console with IBM Security Access Manager WebSeal.

Topics covered:

• Architecture
• Common configurations
• Strategy 1: user mapping with same DN
• Strategy 2: user mapping with same attribute
  
• Strategy 3: using ISIG credential on WebSEAL
• Troubleshooting

The IBM Security Verify technical support team delivered this webinar on 4 May 2020. The presentation covers all methods, new and old, for replicating reverse proxies across multiple IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) (now known as IBM Security Verify Access) appliances. Learn to use programmatic methods to ensure all reverse proxy configurations are matched. Learn how to avoid manual maintenance that can contribute to mistakes.

Methods examined:

• Ansible playbook on Github
• Export/Import by means of LMI or REST API
• pdadmin server sync command

In this video, you learn how to set up IBM Security Verify Access as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) client to IBM Security Verify.

This video is a guide to the new Branching Authentication Policies feature of IBM Security Verify Access.

The course covers these topics:

• Authentication policies
• Branching, flow, information at runtime
• Decision mechanism, configuration, making and resetting decisions
• Other macros
• Scenarios: Generic, Second factor, Username-less, MMFA with TOTP fallback
• OOTB mapping rule method usage

This webinar provides an in-depth view of hardening the Transport layer Security (TLS) and HTTP channels of the IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM, which now is Security Verify Access) appliance. The video reviews configurable parameters and what components they affect.

Agenda:

• Hardening Overview
  • Appliance
  • ISAM for Web
  • ISAM AAC
  • ISAM Federation
• TLS Channels
• HTTP Channels
• FIPS/NIST
• OWASP Overview
• REST API framework

This video provides an overview to the Reverse Proxy worker thread and related parameters so that you understand how to tune them for better performance. Be careful when tuning your servers. Always back up your configuration files before making any changes.

The 10.0 version of IBM Security Verify Access, previously known as IBM Security Access Manager, was released on 12 June 2020. This video provides a brief overview of the new features which have been added to the product as a part of the release.

• WebSEAL
• Branching Authentication Policies
• Federation

This course covers the base functions of IBM Access Manager, including these topics:

In this video, you will see a demo of the new rate limiting feature in IBM Access Manager 9.0.6.

In this video, you will see a demo of the REST client enhancements in IBM Access Manager 9.0.6.

In this Open Mic organized by Access Manager support team, the team discuss how Access Manager protects APIs using OAuth protocol. Some of the key topics include OAuth overview, OAuth terminology, OAuth roles, grant types, enabling OAuth authentication, API protection configuration, authentication code flow, Implicit flow, OAuth mapping rules. After the presentation, attendees were given an opportunity to ask the panel of experts questions.

This lab provides a brief introduction to IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) V9 Platform administration. You learn how to configure and use the IBM Security Access Manager V9.0.3 Platform module for web access management.

This lab covers how to configure IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) to use the user certificates issued by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) for the client certificate-based authentication. The lab also demonstrates the step-up authentication using the client certificate-based authentication.

The External Authentication Interface (EAI) extends the Reverse Proxy also known as WebSEAL, so that a remote application or service can authenticate Access Manager users.

This lab demonstrates steps to configure IBM Access Access Manager (ISAM) Reverse Proxy to redirect the authentication process to an EAI application. The EAI used in this lab is a simple Perl program test_sso.pl which performs a form-based login using user name and password. Then, the EAI posts the user identity using HTTP headers to the check_user.pl program which is configured as a trigger URL. The Reverse Proxy uses the HTTP headers posted in the trigger URL to build user credential internally and grant access to a protected resource.

In this lab, you configure HTTP transformation rules in IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) to modify HTTP requests and responses passing through the Reverse Proxy junctions.

This lab provides a sample configuration that enables WebSphere Liberty application to authenticate and authorize against the IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) LDAP user registry using an LTPA cookie.

In this Open Mic, a panel of experts discuss how to properly debug IBM Security Access Manager WebSEAL SSL Junction failures with Wireshark.

This video discusses the HTTP transformation rules with IBM Access Manager. Topics covered include what are transformation rules, how they are configured, and, how to troubleshoot the rules. In addition, information on how to download example rules is included. 

This is a commercial course that is available through our training partners. Please follow the link below to enroll in this course.

Overview
This is a three-days instructor-led course that introduces students to the foundational skills required to install, configure, and administer IBM Access Manager platform module.
Students learn these skills through lecture and intensive hands-on labs.

Audience
This course is designed for system administrators who are interested in learning IBM Access Manager.

Prerequisites
Before taking this course, make sure that you have the following skills:

• Familiarity with LDAP, TCP/IP and HTTP fundamentals
• Familiarity with the Linux command-line
• Basic knowledge of JavaScript
• Working knowledge of security concepts, including SSL, authentication, and authorization

This video provides an introduction to IBM Security Access Manager, including portfolio strategy, access management use cases, and packaging.

In this Open Mic from 26 June 2019, you learn how to use and troubleshoot the IBM Security Access Manager Adapter (also known as the ISAM Combo Adapter) with the latest level of IBM Security Identity Manager (ISIM) and IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI).

In this session presented live at Think 2018, we review the framework built to leverage IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) REST APIs using Python/Ansible to fully automate all changes to ISAM. This provides an overview for new customers and assists those who are already leveraging this approach.

In this video, you will learn how you can set up federated directories to connect to your Active Directory, then enable native Kerberos Single Sign-On to allow IBM Access Manager to single sign on to Microsoft^® systems.

This short video demonstrates how to secure a Web application using the Web Reverse Proxy component of IBM Security Access Manager.

IBM Access Manager Platform protects web resources using security policies. Each security policy can be defined with a combination of the following controls: Access Control List (ACL) policies, Protected Object Policies (POPs) and Authorization rules.

In this lab, you use ACLs, POPs, and authorization rules to control access to the web content. You first create a junction for IBM HTTP Server (IHS) resources. Then, you apply various security policies to the web resources protected by that junction.

Join the IBM Security Learning Services team for an in-depth tour of the Security Learning Academy, with a focus on IBM Security Access Manager and Cloud Identity course offerings. During this webinar, you will see how to navigate the platform, search the course catalog, enroll in a course, view your enrollments on your dashboard, create progress reports, and see how Security Learning Academy is integrated with IBM VIP Rewards for Security.

In this Open Mic, Scott Exton and Shane Weeden provided an overview of what is new in IBM Security Access Manager 9.0.7. Major themes include:

• FIDO2 support
• Simplified API support
• Quality and customer RFEs
• Certifications
• Upgrade and deployment improvements
  

IBM Security Verify Access (previously known as IBM Security Access Manager or ISAM) supports context-based access (CBA) control based on the dynamic risk assessment or confidence level of a transaction.

In this lab, you learn how to implement CBA based on a value of a certain a parameter in an HTTP POST request and prompts for step-up authentication. The step-up authentication requires the users to provide a time-based one-time password (TOTP). You generate the OTP by using a mobile App on your phone, for example, IBM Verify or Google Authenticator. This lab uses TOTP for step-up authentication but any other supported method can be used.

IBM Security Verify Access (previously known as IBM Security Access Manager or ISAM) provides Authentication Service Framework within the AAC module for policy-based strong and second factor authentication features and functions.

In this lab, you learn how to configure and use the /mga/sps/apiauthsvc endpoint for REST API access. First, configure the integration between the Reverse Proxy and the AAC runtime for context-based access (CBA) control, and OAuth Authorization. Then, create an access policy that detects high-value transactions based on a JSON parameter in the HTTP POST request and prompt the users for second-factor authentication (2FA). Users are required to provide a one-time password (OTP) sent to their email address. The users are allowed access after they provide a valid OTP. This lab uses MAC OTP mechanism for 2FA but other supported method can be used.