How To's

ForgeRock® Identity Management (IDM) is a highly configurable product, capable of solving a large number of provisioning-related business problems. There are features available to store arbitrary data structures, sync with external systems, validate data, track usage, gather data directly from users, and more. As with anything, however, features come with a cost. Having things enabled that you don't really need will slow your system down. For that reason, it's important to review your IDM configuration to make sure that you have only enabled the features you need. To help with that effort, here are some important areas of IDM configuration to evaluate.

Introduction

Traditionally, ForgeRock® Identity Management (IDM) upgrades are handled either in-place or by leveraging the…

Christian Brindley is a Technical Consultant at ForgeRock.

Identity Gateway is something of a Swiss-Army knife when it comes to manipulating HTTP traffic, and that even includes ForgeRock User-Self Service APIs. Learn how to peer within the encrypted content of the self-service state tokens, so you can use these services in new and creative ways.

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Device fingerprints are an out-of-the-box feature included with…

In an earlier article, I showed how ForgeRock Identity Platform, Prometheus, and Grafana can be integrated. In this article, I'll explain how to configure Prometheus, as well as use…

An important security consideration in building a server-side OAuth 2.0 client is leakage of access tokens at the resource server. In this writing, we will discuss a mitigation technique related to this threat based on the use of resource-specific access tokens, and introduce a JavaScript library for implementing this approach in the Node.js environment. Basic knowledge of the OAuth 2.0 framework will be helpful to and is expected of the reader.

Easy and secure implementation of the authorization code grant in a Node.js application with resource-specific access tokens support.

Although progressive profiles are shipped with ForgeRock Identity Management (IDM), what if users only regularly log in using ForgeRock Access Management (AM)?

Intelligent authentication trees let you create the same type of workflow, and occasionally ask…