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Intelligent Authentication Ushers in a New Era in Digital Identity

With the RSA Conference kicking off in San Francisco this week, we’re taking the opportunity to unveil the ForgeRock Identity Platform 6.0. A significant advancement in digital identity technology, our new flagship offering will deliver real, measurable business value to ForgeRock customers in fresh new ways. More than ever before, ForgeRock is the key technology provider helping you to build trusted digital relationships across people, services and things.

At ForgeRock, we take Open Banking seriously. That’s why we’re proud to announce our inaugural Open Banking Week starting on April 23! It will be filled with excellent content and events around this revolutionary regulation. Here’s how it goes:

Customer identity and access management (CIAM) is essential for digital transformation. But finding the right CIAM solution for your unique business needs can be an arduous journey. Creating value through your CIAM architecture means bridging the gaps between the growing number of business applications, APIs, and microservices.

Are you making the most of your customers’ identities? There is no doubt: nowadays, customers are demanding more. Having learned what’s possible from global tech giants and online retailers, they expect the same level of real-time, frictionless service from their traditional providers, like telcos and utilities. But while the immediacy of the online experience has changed consumer attitudes, at the same time no one wants to give up the option to go into a store or a branch or contact a call centre 24x7 either.

How handing the keys to your digital platform over to your users can help scale your business

Nearly a year ago we commissioned a study by the Economist to help better understand people’s view of privacy in particular with the proliferation of connected things or IoT. Our premise was people across the world don’t really appreciate the magnitude of things that they connect to, knowingly or unknowingly, and in particular don’t understand what data about them is being collected, analyzed and monetized. As a supplier of software that helps identify people, places and things we have a profound responsibility to deliver great technology.

How can a retailer get, and remain, one step ahead when it comes to retail technology? This was the key question I and other retail technology experts discussed during our panel session at Retail Week Live in London. On the panel were Julian Burnett, the former CIO of House of Fraser; Jonathan Wall, CDO at Misguided; and Mike Francis, the Head of Digital Transformation for Shop Direct. Henry Wallop, an author and journalist for The Daily Telegraph who specializes in consumer affairs, served as chair for what was a quite far-ranging discussion.

We launched the ForgeRock Trust Network Technology Partner Program in November 2017 with a clear goal in mind: to enable easier and more seamless integration of complementary technologies to the ForgeRock platform. With innovation at the heart of our work at ForgeRock, we knew we needed to make it simple and straightforward to evolve to meet our customers' needs, and we wanted to bring valuable new capabilities into the program.

March 1st marked the moment at which financial services entities in New York must be in compliance with several sections of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) cybersecurity regulation, 23 NYCRR 500. The regulation, which seems to lean heavily on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, is in response to “the ever growing threat posed to information and financial systems by nation-states, terrorist organizations and independent criminal actor