Overview

In this course, you learn about the IBM Verify Access architecture and deployment options and how to position the product within your organization’s landscape of security solutions. You gain skills around how to deploy Verify Access in a containerized environment or on a virtual machine. First, you improve your Verify Access administration skills by managing users, groups, and domains. Then, you are setting up the Reverse Proxy, including the configuration of authentication and authorization processes, protecting the object space with junctions. This course also provides a solid foundation around setting up logging and auditing, preparing you to successfully manage troubleshooting scenarios.

Audience

IT Personnel, System Administrator, IT Security Architect, IT Security Deployment Specialist

Prerequisites

Objective

In this course, you learn to do the following tasks:

• Explain the business context for access management as well as the features and functions of Verify Access
• Describe the component architecture
• Explain the deployment options
• Install and configure Verify Access in a containerized environment
• Understand the differences between a virtual machine or containerized deployment
• Describe the role of the Verify Access administrator
• Learn how to manage user, groups, and domains
• Explain the Reverse Proxy concepts and capabilities:
• Describe how to control access to the protected objects by using Access Control List (ACL) policies, Protected Object Policies (POP), and Authorization rules
• Understand the concept of context-based access
• Describe the Reverse Proxy junctions
• Explain the basic concepts of Verify Access authentication
• Describe the core set of authentication methods that are supported by the Reverse Proxy
• Discuss supplemental post-authentication processes
• Describe the Verify Access logging framework in a containerized deployment
• Describe Verify Access auditing capabilities
• Explain how to troubleshoot the deployment

Course Outline

Architecture and deployment

• Describe the components
• Understand the deployment options
• Install and configure Verify Access in a containerized environment
• Install and configure Verify Access in a containerized environment

User, group, and domain configuration

• Describe the role of the Verify Access administrator
• Learn how to manage user, groups, and domains

Reverse proxy concepts

• Understand the concept and capabilities
• Describe the authentication and authorization processes
• Explain the protected object space and how to use junctions- Learn about administrative tasks

Managing access control

• Explain the object space and the protected objects concept
• Control access to the protected objects by using Access Control List (ACL) policies
• Describe and configure Protected Object Policies (POP)
• Describe and configure Authorization rules

Reverse Proxy junctions

• Describe and configure standard junctions
• Provide an overview of the URL modification methods supported by the Reverse Proxy
• Describe and configure virtual host junctions

Authentication framework and methods

• Explain the basic concepts of Verify Access authentication
• Describe the core set of authentication methods that are supported by the Reverse Proxy
• Discuss supplemental post-authentication processes
• Describe the password processing policy options available during the Reverse Proxy authentication

Logging, auditing, and troubleshooting

• Describe the Verify Access logging framework (containerized deployment)
• Describe Verify Access auditing capabilities
• Explain how to troubleshoot the deployment and collect the support files for problem determination