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ForgeRock releases OpenAM 10.0.0 (16.04.2012)

San Francisco, California. Monday, April 16th 2012

ForgeRock is pleased to announce the general availability of OpenAM 10.0.0, one of the key products in the I³ Open Platform. ForgeRock strengthens OpenAM Authentication, Authorization and Federation capabilities by adding OAuth 2.0, Risk Based Authentication and the Open Identity Gateway. In addition, several key enhancements to security, performance, reliability and replication have been implemented.

The OpenAM 10.0.0 release is a major upgrade and it sets the stage for a modern architecture and introduces many new important features, general improvements to the core product, as well as to the agents. A large amount of the code base has been audited and cleaned up, and as a result the overall quality has been improved. Since the initial release of OpenAM more than a thousand bugs, security issues and improvements have been resolved.

OpenAM 10.0.0 is the result of several months of intensive research and development work at ForgeRock combined with input and feedback from the flourishing ForgeRock open source community for OpenAM and our customers. This release significantly strengthens the security and integration capabilities of the standards based I³ Open Platform. It includes improvements in the areas of Federation with SAML 2.0 and OAuth 2.0, application integration, Risk Based Authentication, and key enhancements in security, reliability, performance and the underlying replication architecture.

The release features the following industry-leading capabilities:

Open Identity Gateway (OpenIG): A high performance identity proxy that expedites the integration of web applications into an OpenAM Single Sign-On environment without touching the application. Ideal for legacy applications where changes to the security model are contraindicated. OpenIG also extends the SAML 2.0 Service Provider capabilities of the OpenAM offering.
Risk Based Authentication: Measure the risk associated with an authentication event and challenge with additional stronger credentials if the need arises. This is now part of the authentication framework and includes capabilities such as geographic location evaluation, time since last login, number of authentication failures check, ip address history check, cookie associated with a device check and attribute profile check, among others.
OAuth 2.0 authentication: Users can now federate their accounts from Google, Facebook, MSN, and any OAuth 2.0 provider with OpenAM.
SAML 2.0 Identity Provider enhanced capabilities that ease the interaction with end-users for several tasks such as approval of attribute release to service providers. This is implemented as an additional hook into the SAML 2.0 framework.
ForgeRock's OpenDJ is now the embedded configuration store.

OpenAM comprises in one single product the features and capabilities usually found in several products. The latest version can be obtained from the OpenAM community downloads area.

Meet us at the European Identity Conference April 17-20 in Munich, Germany (10.04.2012)

European Identity Conference (EIC) is the place to meet with enterprise technologists, thought leaders and experts to learn about, discuss and shape the market in most significant technology topics such as Identity Management, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) and Cloud Computing.

European Identity Conference

The European Identity & Cloud Conference will draw together a wide range of thought leaders, experts, c-level officers, project managers and program managers from Europe and all over the world, including CISOs, CSOs, Chief Risk Officers, IT Architects, Project Managers and Program Managers, IT Security and Information Security Experts and Audit Managers.

Gain the latest input on your strategies to defend your business from internal and external threats without missing the need to share information and increase agility

Meet face-to-face with hundreds of experts to exchange ideas, and to identify new areas of collaboration
Network with your peers from many other countries and share your experiences with them
Further develop your expertise on how to effectively and securely move into the cloud
Learn from the lawyers how to deal a cloud service contract and how to avoid data protection and privacy issues
Receive the latest assessments of what to focus on for a future-proof and cloud-aware IAM infrastructure

Meet us

at the conference at our booth S4.

If you would like to book a 1:1 meeting with us, please send an email to Irena Okoren.

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OpenIDM Summit November 8th 2011, Darmstadt Germany (28.09.2011)

This Summit will reach out to all our customers, partners and community members with an interesting full day agenda.

We are arranging this OpenIDM Summit together with our partner KOGIT. The event is free and open to everyone interested in Open Source Identity Management. A number of interesting keynotes relating to OpenIDM and its evolution will be included, as well as customer cases described and trends within the IAM market segment discussed. There's a press release with comments from the sponsors.

For more information and registration go to the summit website.

OpenAM book (04.05.2011)

ForgeRock welcomes the arrival of Packt Publishing's new book about OpenAM.

ForgeRock welcomes the arrival of Packt Publishing's new book about OpenAM. To celebrate the launch, the publishers have made a great offer. They will be giving a percentage of every sale to support the OpenAM community, and they are offering a 20% discount to community members who order direct from them - just quote the discount code OpenAM20 (case sensitive) at the checkout.

OpenIDM Design Summit 2011 in Oslo, Norway (04.05.2011)

The OpenIDM community are proud to present the OpenIDM Design Summit 2011 in Oslo, Norway hosted by ForgeRock at The Forge Centre from January 26 - 27, 2011.

This event is targeted at both OpenIDM developers - actively engaged in the community building innovative open source technologies for Identity Management - as well as business leaders looking to leverage this new technology for next generation identity solutions. Having developers and business leaders together provides the community with a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and solutions for the Open Source identity management revolution being led by the OpenIDM community. Check out the summit website and agenda. Register today.

ForgeRock Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee (04.05.2011)

Open Invention Network (OIN) today extended the Linux ecosystem with the signing of ForgeRock as a licensee. "We applaud the company's foresight in taking this step to support both itself and the principles of open source," said Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network.