#ibmcsc It may have taken me until day 12 to finally put together a blog post, but as you can imagine, I successfully made it to Argentina. The flight was long, but it was at least comfortable, in no small part due to a nice Premium Economy upgrade between Sydney and Santiago. Although I still... Continue Reading →
#ibmcsc This morning I woke up at sparrow fart to begin the long journey to Salta, Argentina. I'm not sure what the next four weeks will bring, but I am approaching it with trepidation and excitement. As someone who travels a lot, I can't quite put my finger on what is causing the apprehension, whether... Continue Reading →
#ibmcsc For the Argentina 2 CSC team there are 12 IBMers from a plethora of countries: Australia - Philip (Me!) Austria - Stefanie (Blog) Japan - Shiori (Blog [In Japanese]) Netherlands - Nancy (Blog) India - Aravind (Blog), Shweta (Blog), Girija United States - Richard, Niki China - Ping, Chen United Kingdom - Lucy Venezuela... Continue Reading →
#ibmcsc It seems an Aussie can't travel without his entourage . He must bring 26 koalas, 2 kangaroos, 60 Tim Tams and two bottles of Vegemite. I wonder if there is anything else that I should bring that is suitably Australian. Background: On the 2nd of May, I depart to Argentina for a four week... Continue Reading →
#ibmcsc For my time on the Corporate Service Corps (CSC), I've been allocated to work on a project helping Fundación Anpuy. Fundación Anpuy are a small NGO, that focuses on helping children, teenagers and young adults to get through school and university. Typically supporting children from vulnerable situations. The mission of the foundation is to... Continue Reading →
#ibmcsc Almost two years ago, I was selected into the pool of people who were eligible for the IBM Corporate Service Corps, and finally on the 2nd of May, I depart for Salta, Argentina to begin my four week project with a local NGO organisation - Fundación Anpuy. So what exactly is the IBM CSC?... Continue Reading →
Edit (13/1/15): There is another example of trace statements which references a different class in the article: ISAM for Mobile: Javascript Policy Information Points Debugging IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) for Mobile Mapping rules can be challenging. One of the things that makes it much easier is having regular trace statements. In developing the... Continue Reading →
On the IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) for Mobile appliance, the authentication service exposes a number of mapping rules. Four of them are related to the OTP capabilities and the last one is a mapping rule that fires once the authentication service has completed and allows manipulation of the returned ISAM credential. I have a... Continue Reading →
If you'd like to do Authorization in a mapping rule for OAuth, there are a couple of options as to how you do this. On the IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) for Mobile appliance, API protection exposes two Mapping rules: A) A Pre Token Generation mapping rule named: <API Definition Name>PreTokenGeneration. This mapping rule fires... Continue Reading →
In January, I published an article through developerWorks on protecting your website with some of the new features of the ISAM for Web and ISAM for Mobile appliances. It's available here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mobile/library/se-accessmanager/index.html It makes use of Virtual Host Junctions, WebSEAL authentication levels and the comprehensive context based access engine and one time password capabilities in... Continue Reading →
Background: In the latest release of Oracle E-Business, there has been a number of modifications to the security that is applied to their default login form. I captured the initial changes in a blog entry that was posted to on this site here: https://philipnye.com/posts/webseal-forms-sso-into-oracle-ebs-v12/ Disabling the security parameters to make the standard login forms work... Continue Reading →
I just completed all my tax returns for this financial year, and started doing some calculations as to how much HECS I have remaining. I'm getting very close to the final year of my HECS debt, and I always recall thinking back when I was at Uni, I would take advantage of the voluntary payment... Continue Reading →
I've not been on a phone contract for a long time now, and that has resulted in my being in a position where I tend to have to either buy second hand phones or buy them outright. Using my old iPhone 4 I'm starting to toy with the idea of upgrading to a newer/faster model... Continue Reading →
Stumbled across this infographic of the major data breaches of the last decade... Over the past decade, the size and complexity of attacks has been increasing, what I find of most concern in this diagram is not only the fact that many of them are described as 'unknown' which is a combination of companies not... Continue Reading →
After travelling to the US earlier this year, I once again experienced the ease and simplicity of Netflix, and pined for an equivalent back home in Australia. I've seen a number of articles around the place detailing steps to use Netflix out of the US, mostly involving VPNs that ultimately were paid subscriptions. Lifehacker put... Continue Reading →
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