At a glance
Course description
NOTE: This is a live, instructor-led online course. Do not make arrangements to travel. See the Requirements section for the equipment required to participate in the lectures and hands-on labs. After you are confirmed in the class you will receive further instructions to access to audio and video links. Instructor-led Online US courses start at 9:00 am Central time unless specified otherwise. Please enroll at least five business days prior to class start date to ensure course materials can be shipped in time.
This course uses a case study approach to introduce the high-level architecture and detailed design principles of IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business. The course begins with an overview of common security architecture practices and the IBM Tivoli Access Manager solution architecture. The course assumes the student has completed the prerequisite courses and is familiar with the Tivoli Access Manager product family and Access Manager for e-business components. The project management process for developing and determining business and technical requirements is reviewed. After defining design and integration requirements, a high-level solution architecture is developed. User Registry design methodologies and best practices are discussed. You will integrate an Authentication architecture of protected objects with Access Manager for e-business. Authorization Policy implementation using Authorization Servers and the Authorization Application Programming Interface (API) is reviewed. A detailed methodology regarding performance, capacity planning and sizing will be outlined. Throughout the course, you will build a real-world architecture design of an end-to-end Access Manager implementation for an Internet-based financial services solution design.
Objectives
This course enables you to build the necessary knowledge and skills to:
- Initiate an Access Manager for e-business engagement
- Assess business and technical requirements
- Implement proper project management processes
- Specify Access Manager for e-business integration requirements
- Prepare a high-level solution architecture based upon business and technical requirements
- Design a User Registry using the LDAP server
- Design an Authentication architecture
- Specify Authorization Policy and architecture
- Design a solution which integrates Access Manager for e-business with WebSphere
- Design an Access Manager architecture within a complex firewall architecture
- Design a solution which implements redundancy into an Access Manager implementation
- Specify performance and capacity planning requirements
Course outline
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business Security Architecture
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business Best Practices
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business Project Planning
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business Design Points
- Authentication and Delegation Design
- Authorization Design
- Extending a secure e-business
Who will benefit from this course
This intermediate-level course is designed to assist security consultants as they design enterprise security infrastructures using IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business 6.1.
Required skills/knowledge
You should have experience with the following:
- Security policy management concepts
- Security communication protocols
- Web server fundamentals
- Knowledge of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Protocol
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) fundamentals
- Networking concepts
- Firewall concepts
- Directory services / Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) fundamentals
- Basic web page development fundamentals (including security issues)
You should complete:
- IBM Tivoli Implementation Foundation Skills: LDAP Fundamentals
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business 6.1 Deployment and System Administration
To participate in both the lectures and labs for this course, the student workstation must meet the following hardware requirements:
- Minimum of 256 MB of memory
- Windows 2000 or XP
- Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.
- 128-bit encryption
- Versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 6.0 and Windows 2000 must have the High Encryption Packs installed
- Minimum 30Kbps dedicated Internet bandwidth
