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Learn How to Define Customized Polices and Improve User Experience

Learn how to configure the OpenSSO server and its Policy Agents to use IP/Resource/Environment-based authentication for a flexible mechanism that can define customized policies and improve user experience for access control. The three-part article series hosted on the Sun Developer Network comes from the minds of Qingwen Cheng, Mrudul Uchil and Rick Palkovic. The series explain the resource authentication architecture and information flow of OpenSSO components, and presents five use cases for enterprise/corporate SSO and federated SSO deployments.

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Article Series Addresses Securing Web Apps and Using Same-Domain SSO

In Part 1 of a three-part article series on “Protecting Java EE Applications with OpenSSO Policy Agents,” the authors deal with the basic steps of the process: installing and configuring Policy Agents to enforce authentication, single sign on (SSO) and authorization. Part 2 begins with an overview of the three types of SSO and demonstrate how to achieve same-domain SSO. Part 3, which has not been released, will show how access to predefined resources can be restricted to only certain users.

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