Oracle Identity Services

Real Application Security Administrator's and Developer's Guide:  

Real Application Security is designed to:

• Manage application security for application users rather than database users

• Enable developers to manage security for application level tasks

• Enable application user identity to be known during security enforcement

• Enable developers to return security to the database layer, either incrementally, or all at once

Real Application Security is a database authorization framework that enables application developers to define, provision, and enforce application - level security policies at the database layer.  Our APEX Application development uses the IDCS User Group / Roles to define which end-users have access to pages, RAS, defines fine grain row access to data in tables for the end-user.  

These Oracle Tools work together to allow our DIFM application developers to construct and define security policies that delineate access between research entity datasets, and farm datasets. 

The DIFM Ag Research Portal is now interfaced to the Oracle Cloud Identity Services.  (IDCS)  Integration allows scientists to spin up data tools in the cloud from the comfort of the end-user application.   It also allows Group Roles and Access rights to data through a centralized management platform.   The March IT Report will include a detailed video of the application development in progress.  

Where is the simple "shake 'n' bake" / step by step guide to creating a 3-legged, Authorization Code flow OAuth client in IDCS?

Right here!

Having visibility into who can access your application is critical in the application development process. Apex is built with the ability to create roles and permissions, but this video takes it one step further through the integration with Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS). Users will be able to login to APEX applications with their own IDCS credentials based on an authentication scheme linked with IDCS. The access can be even more granular through group authorization schemes by only allowing certain IDCS users or groups to have visibility into distinct pages or data within your application.

Integrating our APEX DIFM Ag Portal Application to Oracle IDCS is essential for managing all types of users, be they farmers, scientists, consultants or curious public internet traffic.  It also allows centralized management through the IDCS Administrators.  Users with proper access can spin up cloud resources on demand to accomplish scientific analysis.  

In all, this entire setup from start to finish should only take about 30 minutes or less. So let’s hit that timer and get started!

This article summarizes steps for DIFM teams to integrate their software applications.  

This tutorial covers details on how to integrate Oracle Apex Application with Custom Domain DNS Provider.  In this case, we will apply the Apex Application as Sub-Domain to portal.DIFM-CIG.ORG

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Command Line Interface (CLI) is a small-footprint tool that lets you create and manage resources in Oracle Cloud using a command line interface. It enables you to automate tasks and makes things easier.