Sean Dolan is a security architect at Quadrasis (Quadrasis, is a business unit of Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc). He has 16 years of experience in commercial and scientific systems and application software development, including experience architecting approaches to the integration of J2EE Application Server products into enterprise security frameworks. As a member of the Sun Java Community Process (JCP) program he has participated in the definition of a number of J2EE security-related specifications.
The rise in popularity of Web services is breaking down barriers and
obliterating isolated silos everywhere. That's good news for any organization
looking to make e-business the normal way of doing business with customers,
colleagues, and partners. Of course, with every falling barrier comes a new
set of challenges around the issue of security. In this article, I'll review
the challenges of security integration with WebLogic J2EE applications in a
distributed environment - and how they can be addressed with an Enterprise
Application Security Integration (EASI) framework based on Web-centric
industry standards.
The Challenge of Distributed Security
First, let's agree on the two high-level goals of any security infrastructure
in a distributed environment: to limit access t... (more)
Sean Dolan is a security architect at Quadrasis (Quadrasis, is a business unit of Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc). He has 16 years of experience in commercial and scientific systems and application software development, including experience architecting approaches to the integration of J2EE Application Server products into enterprise security frameworks. As a member of the Sun Java Community Process (JCP) program he has participated in the definition of a number of J2EE security-related specifications.
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