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WebSphere sMash on Amazon EC2:Securing WebSphere sMash applicationson Amazon EC2
Using BasicAuth and SSL authentication methods to secure the applications
Level: IntermediateDustin Amrhein(damrhei@us.ibm.com
 
), Technical Evangelist, IBM08 April 2009This tutorial guides you through securing WebSphere sMash applications deployed onAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and provides step-by-step guidance to secure anapplication using both BasicAuth and SSL authentication methods. Using BasicAuth andSSL is especially important considering applications are not deployed on infrastructuredirectly controlled by the user, but are instead deployed on Amazon EC2 infrastructure.
Securing WebSphere sMash applications on EC2
This tutorial addresses two methods, BasicAuth and SSL, to use to secure WebSpheresMash applications that are deployed on EC2. The AppBuilder application that isavailable with sMash is used to demonstrate how you can apply these security measures.You should be familiar with the Amazon EC2 infrastructure, and you should have a basicfamiliarity with managing and deploying instances of Amazon Machine Images throughEC2.
About this tutorial
This tutorial provides instructions to secure WebSphere sMash applications deployed onEC2, discusses both BasicAuth and SSL methods of securing applications, and showcaseshow to interact with sMash applications deployed on EC2.
 
Objectives
In this tutorial, you learn how to secure WebSphere sMash applications deployed onAmazon's EC2 cloud using both BasicAuth and SSL.
Prerequisites
In order to complete this tutorial, you should have a general knowledge of Amazon's EC2and WebSphere sMash. In addition, you need an Amazon EC2 account, and you need todeploy an instance of the WebSphere sMash Amazon Machine Image on that account.Instructions for deploying the WebSphere sMash Amazon Machine Image can be foundon theAmazon Web Servicessite
System requirements
You need an internet connection and a valid Amazon EC2 account. Additionally, ensureyou can make SSH connections in your environment.
Getting Started
Verifying deployment
Ensure you take all of the stepsto deploy the WebSphere sMash AMI. After following the instructions for deploying the WebSphere sMash AMI, the instance should bedisplayed in your AWS console:
 
Figure 1. AWS ConsoleConnecting with SSH
Use the public IP address of the deployed instance to establish an SSH connection to your deployed instance. You must have a valid private key to make the connection. See thesMash AMIinstruction guide for steps to generate the key. If you use Putty, first load your key for the session.
Figure 2. Loading key in Putty
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