Directory Services

Fuel Digital Transformation with Massive Scale and High Availability

Let’s be frank. Your identity platform is only as good as its foundation. “Identity done right” gets done wrong without a rock-solid directory to store and access all that identity data.

Born from our telco heritage, ForgeRock Directory Services is the gold standard and was designed from the beginning for massive scale. A high-performance, high availability, web-scale directory that delivers throughput in the tens-of-thousands of logins per second to fuel organizations, like yours, with the power needed for today – and tomorrow’s – digital transformation.

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Directory Services in short

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Migration Guide

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Learn about how our features compare to Oracle Directory Services Enterprise Edition.

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Get the technical resources and documentation to get started with ForgeRock Directory Services

Technical Resources

Administration Guide

Guide to configuring and using ForgeRock Directory Services features.

Developer's Guide

Guide to developing client applications, server extensions, and applications that embed servers by using ForgeRock Directory Services.

Full Documentation

Full Directory Services documentation.

ForgeRock Blog

API Security: Awareness and Moderation are Key

Mar. 11, 2019 By Joachim Andres

A Buddhist approach towards addressing the uncertainty of API Security

2500 years ago, light was shed on the philosophy of moderation. It was the key to health and happiness as taught in Buddhism. Similarly, this approach also applies to our reckless world of technology. Take the API economy, for example. Organizations utilize and depend on APIs to create new revenue streams and monetize their core business.

Feb. 18, 2019 By Robert Vamosi

We started a journey last December with the release of the ForgeRock Identity Platform 6.5, which helps customers transition millions of users from on-premises to cloud-hosted services in minutes. Today ForgeRock is excited to announce this next phase, an identity solution delivered natively in the cloud.

API Security: Applying the Separation of Concerns Design Principle

You may have been wondering what a clever person like Edsger Dijkstra would have considered the best way to approach API security. You aren't the only one. Start by checking out our latest video on API security before we dive into what’s needed for API security and identity integration with business applications.

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True Personal Data Innovation? The Market is Ripe.

Jan. 26, 2019 By Eve Maler

Happy Data Privacy Day!

People’s Personal Data Needs and Desires Are (Surprise!) Personal

I finally did it – moved from a tiny condo to a huge house. And now I have smart home use cases that I resisted mightily before, being what researcher Alan Westin called a “privacy fundamentalist”, a strong believer in privacy and personal data protection.

Jan. 25, 2019 By Lani Leuthvilay

Dust off that PC . . . and that authentication?

This past weekend, my buddies in Europe organized a night of online gaming. It had been over a year since I last played with them. Did I stop to worry about authentication? Heck no. I fired up my dusty PC and launched a leading distribution platform for PC gaming.

ForgeRock DS and the LDAP Relax Rules Control

2 months 1 week ago

In ForgeRock Directory Services 6.5, we’ve added the support for the LDAP Relax Rules Control, both on the server and our clients. One of my colleagues, involved with the customers’ deployment, asked me why we’ve added the control and what it should be used for. The LDAP Relax Rules Control is an LDAP extension that allows a directory user agent […]

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Explaining index-entry-limit in ForgeRock Directory Services / OpenDJ

2 months 1 week ago

A few years ago, I’ve explained the various resource limits in OpenDJ, the open source LDAP and REST directory server. A few months ago, someone read the post and asked on twitter about the index-entry-limit: The index-entry-limit is probably the least understood parameter in the OpenDJ directory server, as was the AllIDThreshold in Sun Directory Server (and its siblings : […]

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Better index troubleshooting with ForgeRock DS / OpenDJ

2 months 2 weeks ago

Many years ago, I wrote about troubleshooting indexes and search performances, explaining the magic “debugSearchIndex” operational attribute, that allows an administrator to get from the server information about the processing of indexes for a specific search query. The returned value provides insights on the indexes that were used for a particular search, how they were used and how the resulting […]

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Kubernetes Process Namespace sharing and the JDK

2 months 3 weeks ago

Kubernetes 1.12 introduced process namespace sharing, which is the ability for containers in a pod to share the same process namespace. One of the neat things that you can do with this feature is to split your containers up into slim runtime containers, and optional debug containers that have all the tools required for troubleshooting. For Java applications we want […]

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ForgeRock Directory Services 6.5 is Available

3 months ago

The ForgeRock Identity Platform was released and publicly announced early December this year (also here). As you may guess from the announcement, an important part of the new features has to do with DevOps, running in Docker, automated with Kubernetes. The underlying datastore for the ForgeRock Identity Platform is ForgeRock Directory Services, and the new 6.5 release comes with a […]

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Platform

An Identity Platform Built with the IoT, CIAM, and You in Mind

Digital Identity

Your Customers...

Millions of customers use your digital services--whether cloud, mobile, or IoT. Protect their digital identities and consolidate customer information, so it's easy to create and personalize the customer experience.

Digital Identity

IoT

Their Things...

Cars, drones, street lights, gas pumps, wearables, medical devices...they all have a digital identity. With ForgeRock, you establish who these devices belong to, and decide how and with whom (or what) they interact.

IoT

Privacy

Their Choice.

Protect and respect privacy. With ForgeRock, you can let your customers share data selectively. Ask them what’s okay to share, how, when, and with whom. Put them in charge, and they’ll put their trust in you.

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