Sometimes its necessary to quickly setup a demo host with IBM Security Verify Access (ISVA) and you need something that will output some diagnostic information. Introducing the https://resource-server-demo.verify.ibm.com/ This is an IBM Hosted demo host - that gives you some demo resources - so you can try out ACLs, or more elaborate configuration. Setting it... Continue Reading →
A simple but useful feature, is the ability in IBM Security Verify Access to compress rolled over files generated by the Reverse Proxy. This includes the audit logs, request logs, referrer logs etc. By default, the rolled over files are plain text, but this can add up - if you intend to store them for... Continue Reading →
This is a bit of an ancient feature, but one I hadn't touched for a while. I wanted a domain cookie in my deployment, I had a Virtual Host and a standard host. host1.example.comhost2.example.com (A virtual Host). And I was struggling to get the login process (via AAC and the identifier first authentication) on the... Continue Reading →
IBM Security Verify Access (ISVA) (formerly IBM Security Access Manager - ISAM) has been around for a fair while, and has made a series of assumptions over it's time, starting fresh, you might not make those assumptions if you were deploying ISVA today. Upgrades for existing customers rarely bring onboard these changes to avoid backwards... Continue Reading →
Philip Nye 