ISAM appliance - WebSEAL Reverse Proxy

The ISAM appliance provides access and authentication management for user to web application sessions and helps protect applications from threats. The appliance uses WebSEAL to enable scalability and protection of the applications from invalid access and threats. WebSEAL is located between the users and the back-end application There are two appliance offerings:

• Virtual offering
• Hardware offering

The appliance has a local management interface for administrative purposes. We can use the it to manage the WebSEAL instances in the environment. For information about using the local management interface, see the Administration topics in the IBM Knowledge Center.

Parent topic: IBM Security Verify Access WebSEAL overview

Related concepts

• Introduction to IBM Security Verify Access
• WebSEAL introduction
• WebSEAL functionality on the appliance
• Security concepts for a WebSEAL deployment
• Authorization process
• Security policy planning
• Content types and levels of protection
• WebSEAL authentication
• Standard WebSEAL junctions
• Web space scalability