Oracle International Corporation

Sreenivasa Chitturi

Ranjan Khanna

Vamsi Motukuru

Chuni Lal Kukreja

Mandar Bhatkhande

Venugopal Padmanabhan Shastri

Sunil Kumar Joshi

A client request message is received at a policy enforcement system from a client-side application intended for a server-side application. The client request message is forwarded to a server-side application. An application response message from the server-side application is intercepted at the policy enforcement system in response to the client request message, resulting in an intercepted application response message. The intercepted application response message is analyzed in view of context information and a network policy. Code to inject into the intercepted application response message is determined based on the analyzing. The code has instructions for eliminating accumulation of stale computing sessions. The code is injected into the intercepted application response message, resulting in a modified message. The modified message is forwarded to the client-side application for automatically executing the instructions on the client-side application.

Executing code injected into an intercepted application response message to eliminate accumulation of stale computing sessions

An example method facilitates dynamic runtime execution of computer code that is selectively injected into messages in accordance with predetermined configuration rules for automatic execution at a message destination. The injection of code into messages, such as messages exchanged during an authenticated computing session, by a policy enforcement system, can be used to efficiently effectuate enhance computing environment security and computing resource use. For example, in a specific embodiment, code for detecting a browser-close event and then terminating a computing session can be automatically executed client side via a browser extension or plugin, thereby helping to eliminate the accumulation of stale computing sessions; thereby mitigating associated security risks and computing resource consumption of stale computing sessions. In another example embodiment, injected code encrypts session cookies, such as via a Time based One Time Password (TOTP).

Dynamic code injection by policy enforcement point

Techniques for securing user sessions using a time-based one-time password (TOTP) generated from a shared secret. The shared secret can be a cryptographic hash of one or more user credentials. In response to a successful authentication based on the user credential(s), a session is created. The authentication is performed in connection with an initial access request from a client application. A subsequent access request for a protected resource during the session is processed by extracting a session cookie and a TOTP and generating a corresponding TOTP using the shared secret. The TOTP can be generated by combining the shared secret with one or more additional parameters such as a Uniform Resource Locator associated with the resource, or the session cookie. Access to the protected resource is conditioned upon the session, which is identified by the session cookie, being valid and upon the TOTPs matching.

Securing user sessions

An access management system is disclosed that can provide access to resources by password-less authentication. The access management system can provide multiple layers of security for authentication taking into account risk factors (e.g., device, location, etc.) to ensure authentication without compromising access. Contextual details of a user based on a mobile device can be used for authentication based on possession of a device. Password-less authentication of a user may be enabled by registration of devices and/or a location (e.g., a geo-graphic location) as trusted. Security data embedded with encrypted data can be sent to a first device for password-less authentication of a user at the device. A second device registered with the user can obtain the security data from the first device. The second device can decrypts the data and send the decrypted data to the access management system for verification to enable password-less authentication at the first device.

Password-less authentication for access management

An access management system is disclosed that can provide access to resources by password-less authentication. The access management system can provide multiple layers of security for authentication taking into account risk factors (e.g., device, location, etc.) to ensure authentication without compromising access. Contextual details of a user based on a mobile device can be used for authentication based on possession of a device. Password-less authentication of a user may be enabled by registration of devices and/or a location (e.g., a geographic location) as trusted. Security data embedded with encrypted data can be sent to a first device for password-less authentication of a user at the device. A second device registered with the user can obtain the security data from the first device. The second device can decrypts the data and send the decrypted data to the access management system for verification to enable password-less authentication at the first device.

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Sreenivasa Chitturi