Recent Posts by Pulkit Sharma

Introduction Customers could use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Alarms to notify their IT staff about events happening in their environment that need attention. Some customers have a central service management system (also known as ticketing system) where they track and manage all such events via alerts and tickets. I recently helped a customer with a solution for managing OCI alarms in their ServiceNow system which is one of the popular service management systems. I think...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring Service provides a convenient way of accessing metric data for multiple OCI services (listed in “Supported Services” section of the Monitoring Overview page). OCI customers can access metric data in multiple ways – in OCI console or by using the Grafana Plug-in for creating dashboards for querying and displaying monitoring data in graphical format or by using SDKs/APIs. New features for OCI are being released at a very fast pace. Ora...

Oracle CASB Cloud Service (hereafter referred to as CASB) quickly gives you visibility into security of your cloud applications and services to help ensure that your critical data is secure. CASB provides these capabilities by frequently pulling in audit log information from various supported cloud services, analyzing them, running machine learning algorithms on them and generating risk events. Customers’ SOC could view and analyze these risk events to take appropriate...

Customers can use Oracle CASB Cloud Service (hereafter referred to as CASB) to monitor and gain deeper visibility into their OCI environments to protect against security threats. CASB supports security monitoring of a rich set of cloud applications. This link describes the set of applications that CASB can monitor and how to prepare them for monitoring. This post is focused on OCI as a target application for CASB. CASB provides some capabilities out-of-the box for all...

One of the responsibilities of Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) is to serve as an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server. As an Authorization Server, IDCS issues access and refresh tokens to OAuth Clients. OAuth Clients use these tokens to access various resources on Resource Servers on-behalf of Resource Owners. OAuth Clients are things like web or mobile applications and Resource Owners are users who use those applications for various purposes. This goal of this article is to...

REST APIs for Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) 11g R2 PS3 were released recently. The availability of REST APIs enables a variety of newer integrations with the product in addition to already available mechanisms using Java APIs. In this article, we discuss various ways of accessing these REST APIs in a secure manner. Please note that irrespective of how users' authenticate to OIM, what data can they access and what actions can they perform depends only on OIM's authorization...

Introduction Oracle Identity Cloud Services (IDCS) - Oracle's comprehensive Identity and Access Management platform for the cloud – was released recently. Populating identity data – such as user identities, groups and group memberships – is one of most important tasks that is typically needed initially and on an on-going basis in any identity management system. IDCS provides multiple ways for uploading identity data. The purpose of this post is to provide a high-level survey...

Some of our OIM customers have a use-case of implementing a custom landing page. Such a landing page could be used for multiple purposes, for example – to display some static information like guidelines for using the system or dynamic information like system news, new features, releases etc. OIM 11gR2 PS2 provides a convenient way of implementing this use-case and it is the subject of this post. The basic idea could be summarized in the following steps: 1. Develop the landing...