Quản lý Danh tính và Truy cập: ForgeRock OpenIDM

Identity and Access Management (IAM) [A part of Cyber Security] market is estimated to grow from USD 8.1 billion in 2016 to USD 14.8 billion by 2021, at an estimated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.9% between 2016 and 2021.

The major factors that are expected to be driving the IAM market are the growing emphasis on compliance management and increasing trend of mobility have driven the demand for IAM solutions in various sectors. Employees can use their devices from different locations these days. Moreover, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approach is increasing the usage of mobile applications. Changing scenarios and distributed IT environments have made organizations susceptible to cyber threats, thereby fueling the demand for IAM solutions.

About ForgeRock:

ForgeRock is a multinational identity and access management software company headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.A. The company develops commercial open source identity and access management products for internet of things, customer, cloud, mobile, and enterprise environments. Fran Rosch is the CEO of ForgeRock. ForgeRock also has offices in Bristol, London, Grenoble, Vancouver (USA), Oslo, Munich, Paris, Sydney, and Singapore. ForgeRock has raised $140 million in venture funding from Accel Partners, Foundation Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and KKR.

When Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle in January 2010, Sun’s open source identity and access management software was scheduled for phase out in favor of Oracle’s in-house product. ForgeRock was founded in Norway by a group of ex-Sun employees in February 2010 to fork the code and continue to develop Sun’s software.

ForgeRock provides digital identity management through its primary product, the ForgeRock Identity Platform. The ForgeRock Identity Platform includes

• Access Management (based on the OpenAM open source project),

• Identity Management (based on the OpenIDM open source project),

• Directory Services (based on the OpenDJ open source project), and

• Identity Gateway (based on the OpenIG open source project).

  
  

About OpenIDM 6.5.3[latest]

•OpenIDM is an identity management system written in the Java programming language.

•The old OpenIDM source code is available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). OpenIDM is designed with flexibility in mind, leverages JavaScript as default scripting language to define business rules during provisioning.

•All capabilities of OpenIDM exposes RESTful interfaces. As an integration layer, OpenIDM leverages the Identity Connectors (adopted by ForgeRock as OpenICF) and has a set of default connectors.

ForgeRock launched the OpenIDM project in October 27, 2010 at GOSCON in Portland following a 6-month internal development process.

OpenAM

•OpenAM is an open-source access management, entitlements and federation server platform.

•It was sponsored by ForgeRock until 2016. Now it is supported by Open Identity Platform Community.

•OpenAM originated as OpenSSO, an access management system created by Sun Microsystems and now owned by Oracle Corporation.

OpenDJ

•OpenDJ is an LDAPv3-compliant directory service, developed for the Java platform, providing a high-performance, highly available, and secure store for the identities managed by your organization.

•Its easy installation process, combined with the power of the Java platform, makes OpenDJ the simplest and fastest directory to deploy and manage. OpenDJ directory server comes with plenty of tools and also offers REST access to directory data over HTTP.

•OpenDJ is free to download, evaluate, and use for developing your applications and solutions. You can obtain and modify the source code to build your own version.