Securing Web Services Applications Using WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances

Course Overview

This instructor-led course teaches you about the Web service and Extensible Markup Language (XML) application security and monitoring features provided by the XI50 and XS40 IBM WebSphere DataPower Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Appliances. You will learn how to configure an XML firewall to protect against a new class of XML-based threats, create a Web services proxy to enforce a security policy, configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to and from the DataPower appliance, and enforce service level policies by creating monitors that measure message traffic. You will also learn how to troubleshoot their services using logs, probes and error handling, and how to employ best practices and architectural scenarios for effectively using DataPower appliances in the SOA architecture.

Audience

This course is designed for integration developers responsible for configuring service policies on the IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should be familiar with the following topics:

• Security-based concepts and protocols
• XML related technologies, such as XML schema, XPath, and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
• Web service fundamentals and Web Services Security specification

Course Outline

• Introduction to DataPower SOA appliances
• DataPower Web Graphical User Interface (GUI) administration
• Introduction to Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) transformations
• DataPower services overview
• XML firewall service
• Problem determination tools
• DataPower cryptographic tools
• Securing connections using SSL
• XML threat protection
• Web service proxy
• XML and Web services security overview
• Authentication, authorization and auditing
• Configuring Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) using Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
• Web application firewall
• Multi-protocol gateway (MPG)
• Monitoring objects
• Service level monitoring (SLM)
• DataPower architectural scenarios

Securing Web Services Applications Using WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances / WB552GB (WB552GBGB)