Advanced security features

Security model
  • WebSphere Message Broker now has powerful runtime security model:
    • Supporting cross domains security processing
    • Identity, Authentication and Authorization are native capabilities
  • Support for major policy decision points technologies including Tivoli and LDAP
Identity
  • A rich identity context can be defined including properties for source and mapped identities:
    • Type
    • Token
    • Password
    • Issued by
  • MQ, HTTP, JMS, and SOAP transports can all provide identity information.
  • Identity attributes can be set on input and output nodes.
  • Identity information is also present in the Message Tree.
Security profiles
  • You can configure different security profiles to differentiate between the security requirements for your different message flows and nodes.
  • The security profile contains information on:
    • Authentication type and configuration
    • Mapping type and configuration
    • Authorization type and configuration