About this Course

IBM® Security Access Manager for Web (formerly IBM Tivoli® Access Manager for e-business) is a scalable and centralized user authentication, authorization, and web single sign-on solution.

Audience Profile

This intermediate course is for system and web administrators.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this cours, students will be able to:

• Describe the purpose and components of IBM Security Access Manager for Web
• Use the Web Gateway Appliance
• Describe the reverse proxy authentication and authorization
• Create users, groups, access control lists, and protected object policies

Prerequisites

You should have:

• Basic Linux or UNIX skills, including command-line
• Basic Windows skills
• HTTP Server skills
• Basic IBM WebSphere Application Server skills
• Basic Directory Server skills

Course Outline

• Introduce the concepts of a reverse proxy and how it fits in your web server infrastructure
• Introduce the Web Gateway Appliance and how to configure and manage it
• Learn the concepts of authentication and authorization
• Learn access control for the reverse proxy
• Learn how to set up the reverse proxy to handle web requests
• Learn how to add web content protection feature to reverse proxy functioning
• Learn how to audit reverse proxy events