Securing Java Web Services Training

Delivery Options

• Customized Onsite Training (4 days): Request a Proposal

Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Understand the unique challenges in securing interoperable XML-based services.
• Apply W3C standards to digitally sign and encrypt XML fragments and documents.
• Understand the importance of the WS-Security specifications to interoperably secure messaging.
• Use state-of-the-art tools to configure or implement signature, encryption, and various WS-Security header content for Java web services.
• Drive such WSS implementations from WS-SecurityPolicy documents.
• "Vouch for" a user across domains to achieve request authorization without sharing credentials.
• Exchange security information between servers, applications, and components, using SAML assertion and protocol models.
• Understand the role of XACML in policy management and decision-making.
• Understand the WS-Trust and WS-Federation architectures for developing the trust relationships that enable service federations and service-oriented architectures.
• Build web applications that participate in SAML federation and single sign-on.

Class Outline

1. Securing the Service-Oriented Enterprise
   1. Security for Web Services
   2. Threats
   3. CIA Goals
   4. Solution Levels: W3C, OASIS, Java EE
   5. Scenario: Secure Multi-Party Conversation
   6. Cryptography
   7. WS-Security and WS-SecurityPolicy
   8. Scenario: Sharing Security Information
   9. SAML and XACML
   10. Scenario: Multiple User Realms
   11. Scenario: Single Sign-On
   12. Technology Stacks: WS-Federation and Liberty Alliance
   13. The WS-I Basic Security Profile
2. Transport Security
   1. Use Case: Secure Transport
   2. HTTP Authentication Schemes
   3. HTTP BASIC
   4. HTTP DIGEST
   5. Securing Web-Service URLs
   6. HTTPS
   7. JAX-WS Support
   8. Axis Support
3. XML Signature
   1. Use Case: Non-Repudiation
   2. XML Digital Signature
   3. Cryptography Backgrounder
   4. Canonical XML
   5. Enveloped, Enveloping, and Detached Signatures
   6. SignedInfo and References
   7. The Java Cryptography Architecture
   8. Keystores
   9. Why Keys Aren't Enough
   10. X.509 Certificates and Certificate Chains
   11. The KeyStore API
   12. Java XML Digital Signature API
   13. Steps to Sign and Verify XML Content
   14. JAX-WS Message Handlers
   15. Foiling the Man in the Middle
4. XML Encryption
   1. Use Case: Confidentiality
   2. XML Encryption
   3. EncryptedData
   4. Element vs. Content Encryption
   5. Key Wrapping
   6. The Java Cryptography Extensions
   7. Apache XML Security
   8. Steps to Encrypt and Decrypt XML Content
   9. Choosing Algorithms and Key Sizes
5. WS-Security
   1. Use Case: Secure Message Exchange
   2. Use Case: User Login
   3. The WS-Security Specifications
   4. Security Token Types
   5. Timestamps
   6. Username Tokens
   7. Signature and Encryption
   8. Tools for WS-Security
   9. XWSS and JAAS
   10. Foiling Replay Attacks
6. WS-SecurityPolicy
   1. Use Case: Sharing Metadata
   2. WS-Policy
   3. Normalized vs. Compact Form
   4. Policy Attachment
   5. Policy Scopes
   6. WS-SecurityPolicy
   7. Protection Assertions
   8. Token Assertions
   9. Supporting and Endorsing Tokens
   10. Bindings
   11. Metro and WSIT
   12. Implementing Callbacks
   13. Integrating Security Frameworks
7. Introduction to SAML
   1. History of SAML
   2. Assertions
   3. Protocol
   4. Bindings
   5. Profiles
   6. Using OpenSAML
   7. SAML and Web Services
8. SAML Assertions
   1. Use Case: "Vouching for" a User
   2. The Assertions Schema
   3. Extensibility
   4. Assertions and Subjects
   5. NameID Types
   6. Conditions
   7. Subject Confirmation
   8. Confirmation Methods
   9. AuthntStatement
   10. Authentication Contexts
   11. AttributeStatement
   12. Attribute Profiles
   13. AuthzDecisionStatements
   14. Actions and Evidence
   15. WS-Security and SAML Tokens
   16. OpenSAML Assertions Model
   17. Creating XML Objects
   18. Marshalling and Unmarshalling
9. SAML Protocol
   1. Use Case: Back-Channel Queries
   2. Requests, Queries, and Responses
   3. Status and StatusCode
   4. AuthnQuery
   5. AttributeQuery
   6. AuthzDecisionQuery
   7. Other Request and Response Types
   8. OpenSAML Protocol Model
   9. SAML and XML Signature
   10. SAML and XML Encryption
10. XACML
    1. Use Case: Back-Channel Authorization
    2. Use Case: Sharing Authorization Policies
    3. Policies, Policy Sets, and Targets
    4. Rules
    5. Combining Algorithms
    6. Policy Context
    7. Request and Response Types
    8. The SAML Profile of XACML
    9. Authorization Decisions via XACML
11. Securing Federated Services
    1. Publish, Find, Bind ... Execute!
    2. UDDI
    3. WS-BPEL
    4. The Trust Problem
    5. WS-Trust
    6. The Security Token Service
    7. Messaging Model: RST and RSTR
    8. Derived Keys
    9. WS-SecureConversation
    10. Secure Conversation Metrics
    11. WS-Federation
    12. Value Proposition
12. SAML Bindings
    1. Use Case: Speaking "Through" the Browser
    2. The SOAP Binding
    3. SAML Over HTTP
    4. The Browser as Messenger
    5. The Redirect, POST, and Artifact Bindings
    6. The PAOS Binding
    7. The URI Binding
13. Federated Identity
    1. What is Federation?
    2. Problems for Identity Federation
    3. SAML 2.0 Federations
    4. Single Sign-On
    5. Account Linking and Persistent Pseudonyms
    6. Transient Pseudonyms
    7. Name ID Mapping
    8. Federation Termination
    9. OpenSSO
    10. Fedlets

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Solid Java programming experience is essential;
• Experience developing Java Web services is likewise a hard requirement: labs will assume understanding of both SAAJ and JAX-WS.
• Students are expected to be able to read and write XML fluently, and have some familiarity with XML Schema. Consider courses

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Onsite course technical requirements and setup instructions.