Digital Business Automation Ideas
This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
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Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights
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Content Services - FileNet Content Manager
Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand
Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer
Content Services - Navigator
Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files
Content Services - Content Collector for SAP
Content Services - Enterprise Records
Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)
Datacap
Automation Document Processing
Automation Decision Services (ADS)
Operational Decision Manager
Robotic Process Automation
Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere
Blueworks Live
Business Automation Manager Open Edition
IBM Process Mining
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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.
To: Thomas Nold
Basically, you are pointing out that with browser development tools, entered data that was already validated server-side could be maliciously modified and submitted server-side.
I was thinking about a couple of ways to prevent this:
1). I was thinking leveraging EPV or ENV variables could be used to persist sensitive data that cannot be maliciously modified.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/baw/23.x?topic=services-declaring-variables
If I define sensitive data like a loan amount, I could store that in an EPV which can be changed but only in a server-side task so it would not be exposed to browser debuggers.
2). You could also have different user tasks in the process with tamper detection between:
User task 1: Enter Data
Provides fields to enter the data
Also invokes validation to catch 99% of errors for non-malicious employees
Tamper Detection Service
Takes the output from Enter Data and performs validation (perhaps the same validation, but could do more too)
User task 2: Confirm Data and Submit
If the data passes validation, this task simply shows the data for final confirmation
No data is mapped back to the process
Perhaps this task is only shown if an anomaly is detected?
Do you think that these ideas will work for your use case?