Category Archives: Security

IBM MQ basics: security — part 2: user authentication

Posted on August 31, 2020 by António Trindade

User authen­ti­ca­tion is anoth­er aspect of secu­ri­ty that is often over­looked and many think it only applies to human users. Quite the con­trary! User authen­ti­ca­tion, albeit with a few twists, is an essen­tial aspect for secur­ing appli­ca­tions’ access to resources. IBM … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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IBM MQ basics: security — part 3: object permissions

Posted on August 17, 2019 by António Trindade

This time, I’ll be writ­ing about object per­mis­sions only. Object per­mis­sions allow for fine-grained access con­trol to MQ objects (queues, top­ics, etc.). One can con­fig­ure an user to only be able to read from one spe­cif­ic queue and only write to … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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IBM MQ basics: security — part 1: SSL communications

Posted on August 17, 2019 by António Trindade

It is fre­quent­ly neglect­ed. It is almost always over­looked. It is the ugly duck­ling of dis­trib­uted appli­ca­tion design. Yes, I am talk­ing about Infor­ma­tion Secu­ri­ty. Secu­ri­ty should be a com­pul­so­ry require­ment of any appli­ca­tion. IBM MQ has exten­sive secu­ri­ty options … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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