External question sets and authentication plugins
Bravura Security Fabric can use external programs to retrieve security question data, and to validate answers in order to authenticate Bravura Security Fabric users. This allows you to integrate Bravura Security Fabric with human resources databases or with external authentication systems, such as token or smart card systems.
The following sections show you how to:
Write a custom program to interface with an external security question database or authentication system.
Enable plugins for external question sets to look up and store security question data on an external system.
Enable plugins for external authentication to look up and store security question data, and validate answers, on an external system.
Use shipped plugin odbcqa.exe which looks up and stores security question information on an ODBC DSN connection (Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database).
Use shipped plugin resextqa.exe which manages security questions using SHA1 hashing and stores security question information internally.
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Alternatively, you can configure a custom authentication chain , using the Connector package agent module (agent.pss) with a suitable connector to perform a user verify or challenge-response operation. See Use case: Adding RSA Authentication method to Bravura Security Fabric .