Chapter 8. Security Services on Bluemix
In this chapter, we will look at what security services are available on Bluemix and how we can use them to secure our application on Bluemix. Securing your web applications and your cloud environment is a very important aspect of developing applications on cloud. In this chapter, you will learn about the security services provided on Bluemix and how you can configure one of the security services to provide an authentication service to your web application.
Note
Discussions in this chapter will be based upon the capabilities that are available on Bluemix at the time of writing this book.
In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:
- Overview of security services in Bluemix
- Access Trail security service
- Creating the Access Trail service instance
- Working with the Access Trail service
- Single Sign On security service
- Creating the Single Sign On service instance
- Configuring the identity sources in Single Sign On
- Configuring the Cloud Directory...
