Action Identity Blog

Currently, if you want to run an organized business, you need a directory for your employees and perhaps your clients as well. If you’re an entrepreneur and starting a small business, you may not have the financial means for purchasing one of the big named directory services such as Active Directory or NetIQ’s eDirectory. OpenDJ is a great solution for getting your business off the ground, being that it is the most complete open source directory product. OpenDJ also provides plug-and-play installation, allowing your IT staff to set up the directory and move on to configuring your budding infrastructure. OpenDJ also runs on Java, providing multi-OS deployment, including virtualized environments.

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Researching ForgeRock OpenIDM 2.0, and the website’s claim to being flexible and easy to use, has sparked my interest into what the product has to offer. ForgeRock is growing in popularity in the development community because of its open availability and the user community forums. Developers are working together to help improve the software and make a strong code base. OpenIDM 2.0 is designed to help provide businesses with a solution for business process handling and compliance and the product excels at this by using JSON for reconciliation, synchronization, and mapping, making the process of bulk importing users into a system more developer/administrator friendly. 

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ForgeRock OpenAM is a web-based open source application that provides Authentication, Authorization, Entitlement and Federation services. OpenAM is the continuation of the Sun Microsystems' OpenSSO product that was dropped by Oracle after their acquisition of Sun. ForgeRock came to the rescue and revived the product!

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On May 31, 2011 ForgeRock released OpenIDM 2.0 Milestone 1.  This relative newcomer to Identity Management is being developed in the open source space, and offers a highly flexible, developer friendly, solution to business process handling and compliance. Currently the Roadmap for OpenIDM lays out their plans to have quarterly releases through quarter four of 2012. Since this is an open source product you can pull down the source code using these instructions; join the development community; discuss development; or file a bug report.

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2011 has probably been one of the worst years for security breaches in the history of networking.  As I write this post, I am looking at reports of private information left available in a publicly readable location or sold by employees looking for a quick buck -and this all within the last month!  Organizations clearly have more threats than ever, both from within and without.

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