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www.novell.com iChain ® 2.1: Introduction and Overview Lee Howarth Product Manager Novell, Inc. lhowarth@novell.com
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Vision…one Net A world where networks of all types—corporate and public, intranets, extranets, and the Internet—work together as one Net and securely connect employees, customers, suppliers, and partners across organizational boundaries Mission To solve complex business and technical challenges with Net business solutions that enable people, processes, and systems to work together and our customers to profit from the opportunities of a networked world
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Agenda What is iChain ® ? Architectural overview iChain features Demonstration Affiliate Connector (quick intro) Question and answer
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What Is iChain? “iChain is a security and management infrastructure that provides a common security framework for enabling eBusiness services while at the same time reducing complexity and total cost of ownership” iChain is a gatekeeper to web-based resources
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Today’s Typical Environment Web servers and applications Security E-mail ERP CRM Employee Intranet LHowarth - xxx 7748-zzz HowarthL - yyy Partner Extranet Customer Internet Employee Intranet GabeW - xxx WatG - yyy 7366 - zzz Customer Internet Employee Intranet 2298- zzz HalesMY - yyy MYHales Firewall
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Novell eDirectory™ Security infrastructure Employee One Net Customer Partner MYHales - xxx LHowarth - xxx GabeW - xxx Web servers and applications E-mail ERP CRM Novell iChain Firewall
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Browser Web and application servers iChain Proxy Server iChain Authorization Server 1. Authentication—Who are you? 3. Single Sign-on Security 2. Access control—What do you have access to? 4. OLAC (Personalization) 5. Data confidentiality User=xx Password=xx Books=Thrillers, Horrors Novell iChain—How Does It Work?
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Browser Web and application servers iChain Proxy Server iChain Authorization Server Domain-Based Multi-Homing Access Multiple Services through One Public IP Address 192.233.80.5 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3 DNS Entry www.novell.com support.novell.com developer.novell.com Browser sends www.novell.com in HTTP host header
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Authentication Service Standard browser-based access (no client) No agents required on web servers Multiple authentication methods (multi-factor) LDAP—UserID/password (e-mail address or any LDAP field) X.509 Certificates Token (RSA, Vasco, Secure Computing)—dependent on RADIUS UserID and password sent over HTTPS (HTTP optional)
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Authorization Services Access control Leverages eDirectory hierarchy and inheritance Access based on rules stored in eDirectory (cont.) Three different levels available –“Public” —no authentication or access control –“Restricted” —authentication only –“Secure” —authentication and access control Access rules may be assigned to Users Groups Containers (O, OU, etc.)
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Dynamic Access Control Adds greater flexibility to satisfy security policies Access based on identity information Example “Object type=User” AND “Description=Manager” Dynamic Access Control rule
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Single Sign-On/Personalization iChain Proxy forwards user information to backend web servers—utilizes object level access control Used for Single Sign-on ICHAIN_UID and ICHAIN_PWD can be mapped to any LDAP field (allows different names/passwords to be sent to web server) Used for personalization Sends “Parameter=Values” (retrieved using LDAP) Form fill authentication Stores credentials entered by user (Novell SecretStore ® ) Automatically fills form on next request
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Data Confidentiality Secure exchange Secure transparent (on the fly) encryption Eliminates the need to use SSL on web servers Increases performance of web server Decreases management tasks SSL encryption strength Force 128-bit connections No cache setting
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User and Access Management Browser-based utilities to change user profile information and passwords Leverages eDirectory restrictions Time restrictions, intruder lockout, password history, password expiration and grace logins Offers enhanced password management features Non-dictionary words, minimum number of numerals /characters
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iChain 2.1—User Certificate Mapping Why do we need this? iChain must know the distinguished name of the user to enforce access control Third-party certificate authorities will very rarely distribute certificates with this information in a correct format What does it do? Provides a mapping between the information held in the certificate to the user’s distinguished name
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iChain 2.1—User Certificate Mapping How is it configured?
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iChain 2.1—Custom Re-Writer Why do we need this? When hiding internal DNS infrastructure, the browser must know how to get to services using the public DNS information The default iChain re-writer will automatically change most of the relevant content as is passes through the proxy Certain web applications (Oracle) hard code DNS information into its data stream This must be identified and changed
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iChain 2.1—Custom Re-Writer Browser iChain Proxy Server Finance.novell.com Oracle.prv.novell.com Without custom re-write
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iChain 2.1—Custom Re-Writer Browser iChain Proxy Server finance.novell.com Oracle.prv.novell.com [Name=oracleFilter] [Extension] Html, htm [Replace] PARAM name=servHost Value=finance.novell.com finance.novell.com With custom re-write
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iChain 2.1—Custom Login Pages Custom page for each accelerator
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iChain 2.1—Custom Cert Error Page Why do we need this? Accelerator configured to require a certificate User has no certificate—presses Cancel, goes to a blank page User has no idea what to do next
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iChain 2.1—Session Broker Increases scalability of iChain infrastructure Shares authentication information between proxy servers Browser Session broker
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iChain 2.1
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Affiliate Connector (Quick Intro) What is the Affiliate Connector? Extends the iChain authentication and access control process to affiliates (partner sites) Web services Uses Secure Assertions Markup Language (SAML) Learn more IO124—Implementing B2B and B2C Solutions Using Affiliate Connector
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Affiliate Connector (Quick Intro) 1. Authenticate 4. Redirect to Comp X. Method = ID/PW Perk = Silver Name = John Doe FF#987654321 Affiliate site Portal Affiliate Connector 2. Link to Benefits service Comp X. (iChain) Application server iChain 6. Enforce security policies 5. Authenticate to iChain using secure token Method = ID/PW Perk = Silver Name = John Doe FF#987654321 3. Generate SAML Token Affiliate user
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Learn More About iChain BUS227 Novell Solutions at Sesame Street BUS228 How iChain Helps Ticona Improve Business Operations BUS350 How Essentialtalk Uses iChain and eDirectory for Web Commerce
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Learn More About iChain TUT254 iChain Configuration Using the Web Server Accelerator Wizard TUT254 Avoiding the Top iChain Technical Issues TUT361 CNI Education: Protecting the Network with Novell iChain
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