Social Federation with OAM Mobile & Social in Native iOS Applications
Introduction I’ve already posted an article about Social Federation with Mobile & Social (M&S) for web applications protected by Oracle Access Manager (OAM), showing users being authenticated...
View ArticleIntegrating Oracle Access Management platform with Mobile Application Framework
Fellow A-Team blogger Andre Correa recently posted an article about integrating native IOS Apps with the OAM Mobile & Social SDK in order to do social identity federation within these apps. To...
View ArticleAutomated Policy Synchronization (APS) for OAM Cloned Environment
Introduction Since the introduction of MDC support in OAM 11g, Customers have been asking for Automated Synchronization between Master and Clone OAM Environments. It is supported in OAM R2PS2. Thanks...
View ArticleConfiguring OAM SSO for ATG BCC and Endeca XM
Introduction Single sign-on, or “SSO” as it’s commonly referred to, is an authentication method that allows a user access to multiple applications through a single, secure, point of entry. Rather than...
View ArticleUsing OAAM Risk Evaluation in OAM Authorization Policies
We recently encountered an interesting requirement about taking decision within OAM Authorization policy based on the Risk-evaluation performed by OAAM during Authentication flow. Considering the...
View ArticleOAAM_SAMPLE with different integration and/or deployment options
Multiple times in past, I have encountered questions/issues about OAAM_SAMPLE. So, thought to write a small post explaining how it can be used/configured to test (try out) different native integration...
View ArticleOAM Federation: Identity Provider & Service Provider Management
In this blog post I want to clarify a point of initial confusion some people experience with OAM Federation 11.1.2.3. If we go to the “Federation” tab of the OAM Console, we see: Now the two main...
View ArticleOAM Federation 11.1.2.3: Performing a Loopback Test
In this blog post I will share steps for performing a loopback test of OAM Federation 11.1.2.3. In a loopback test, we configure OAM’s SP to point to OAM’s IdP. This enables you to confirm the basic...
View ArticleOAM Federation 11.1.2.3: Example Message Processing Plugin
SAML is an extensible protocol. Since it is based on XML, through the use of XML namespaces, custom elements and attributes can be inserted into the SAML messages at the appropriate places. Sometimes...
View ArticleOAM Federation 11.1.2.3: Performing a loopback test with WS-Federation
In a previous post I gave steps for performing a loopback test with SAML. This is where we configure OAM Federation to talk to itself, to act as both IdP and SP. This is useful in development and test...
View ArticleImplementing OAuth 2 with Oracle Access Manager OAuth Services (Part I)
Introduction This post will explain the basics of OAuth 2.0 and how it can be used to protect resources by implementing some of the most common OAuth use cases. OAM provides out of the box OAuth...
View ArticleImplementing OAuth 2 with Oracle Access Manager OAuth Services (Part II)
Introduction This post is part of a series of posts about OAM’s OAuth implementation. Other posts can be found here: Part I – explains the proposed architecture and how to enable and configure OAM...
View ArticleImplementing OAuth 2 with Oracle Access Manager OAuth Services (Part III)
Introduction This post is part of a serie of posts about OAM’s OAuth implementation. Other posts can be found here: Part I – explains the proposed architecture and how to enable and configure OAM OAuth...
View ArticleImplementing OAuth 2 with Oracle Access Manager OAuth Services (Part IV)
Introduction This post is part IV of a series of posts about OAM’s OAuth implementation. Other posts can be found here: Part I – explains the proposed architecture and how to enable and configure OAM...
View ArticleImplementing OAuth 2 with Oracle Access Manager OAuth Services (Part V)
Introduction This post is part of a series of posts about OAM’s OAuth implementation. Other posts can be found here: Part I – explains the proposed architecture and how to enable and configure OAM...
View ArticleRetrieving the OAM SessionID for Fun and Profit!
Introduction I recently worked with a customer who needed to do some OAM session manipulation via custom code in order to implement a complex use case. While the focus of this post is not to go into...
View ArticleMultiple authentication mechanism chaining in OAM
Authentication mechanism chaining Since the inception of OAM 11g, we have been talking about authentication scheme chaining and being able to invoke multiple authentication schemes in sequence or...
View ArticleMDC Switch – Configuring Multi-Data Center Types
INTRODUCTION This post discusses the steps required to configure a “master” data center to a “clone” data center and visa-versa. If you are not familiar with Multi-Data Center (MDC) implementation and...
View ArticleOAM 11g Webgate Tuning
INTRODUCTION This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to each of the separate posts is available....
View ArticleCloud Security: Federated SSO for Fusion-based SaaS
Introduction To get you easily started with Oracle Cloud offerings, they come with their own user management. You can create users, assign roles, change passwords, etc. However, real world enterprises...
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