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CA Strong Authentication Java Developer's Guide › Authenticating Users › Fetching the PAM

Fetching the PAM

Personal Assurance Message (PAM) is a security feature that reassures the end users that they are accessing the genuine site of your organization, and not a phished site.

Important! For the CA Advanced Authentication out-of-the-box flows, PAM is not enabled. However, this feature is available as a custom option.

To obtain the PAM of a user:

  1. (Optional) If you are implementing a plug-in, then invoke the setAdditionalInput() method in the AdditionalInput class to obtain an object that implements the class.

    See "Preparing Additional Input" for more information.

  2. Invoke the getPAM() method in Authentication class to fetch the PAM of the user.

    This method returns an instance of the PAMResponse interface, which provides the user details, PAM, and transaction details.