146IBM Business Process Manager Security: Concepts and Guidance
Recall from our discussion of encryption, SSL and certificates: it matters not who is in
possession of your encrypted passwords, as long as they do not have access to the secret
knowledge that generates and/or decrypts them.
5.5.2 Faith in firewalls
Here it is, once again, our most common security hole by far. In the context of this chapter, a
“faith in firewalls” can lead to a huge security hole because of the nature of Business Process
Manager Standard Edition’s reliance upon HTTP Basic Authentication for web service
credentials.
To illustrate this point, consider Figure 5-34. ...
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