Oracle API Gateway: Manage and Control Security
Oracle API Gateway 11g R2 (11.1.2.3.0) is a security gateway product in Oracle Fusion Middleware product family. The product primarily provides first line of defense for SOA and Cloud environments.
The course is ideal if you have a basic understanding of web application security vulnerabilities. The course will help you brush up your XML and Web Services security knowledge, teach you how to use Oracle API Gateway tools to configure policies and filter to secure, accelerate and integrate XML and Web Services.
Duration: 30hrs
Course Content:
Course Introduction
- Course goal
- Lesson objectives
- Agenda for each day of lessons
- Describing the practice environment and business scenario
Web Services Security Overview
- Security challenges for Web Services
- Web Services
- Web Services security concepts
- Transport versus message security
- Security standards overview
- Best practices for applying security for web services
Getting Started with Oracle API Gateway (OAG) 11g
- Need for XML gateways
- Oracle API Gateway as multi-layered security deployment for web services
- Oracle API Gateway Basics
- Oracle API Gateway Features
- Oracle API Gateway architecture and components
- Oracle API Gateway User Interface
Registering Web Services in OAG
- Introduction to Policy Studio interface
- Capabilities of registered/virtualized web services
- Registering and testing web services in Policy Studio
- Policies
- Assigning policies to web services in Policy Studio
Monitoring, Logging and Tracing
- Monitoring traffic in API Gateway Manager
- Troubleshooting Tools
Managing Configurations
- Describe OAG configuration structure
- Manage a deployed configuration
- Compare and merge API Gateway configurations
- Import and export configuration data
Fault Handling
- What is Fault Handling?
- SOAP Faults
- Default Fault Handler
- Overriding the Default Fault Handler
- Custom Fault Handling by using a policy
- Example of Custom Fault Handling: Global Handler
Blocking XML Threats
- XML Concepts
- XML Firewalling
- XML content & schema attacks and the filters to use
- What is throttling
- Define rules for throttling
- Protect REST
Accelerating XML Processing and Managing Traffic
- Caching
- Configuring cache settings
- Managing Traffic
Configuring SSL
- Encryption concepts
- SSL basics
- SSL support in the OAG Gateway
- Configuring SSL settings
- Configuring mutual SSL settings
- Terminating an SSL connection
Securing XML Messages
- XML signature
- XML encryption
- XML transformation
Securing SOA Composites with OAG and Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM)
- SOA and Web Services
- SOA Composite Applications
- Oracle Service Bus
- Oracle Web Services Manager
Integrating OAG with Identity and Access Management and OAuth
- Oracle Access Management Suite
- OAM Architecture
- OAG-OAM Integration
- OAG-OES Integration
- OAuth 2.0
Cloud Security with OAG
- Cloud Computing
- API keys
- Protecting and Managing API Keys