ForgeRock® Identity Gateway Core Concepts

The ForgeRock® Identity Gateway Core Concepts course is for students who want to examine core concepts and implement key use cases and features of ForgeRock Identity Gateway (IG) to help extend...

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Course Code IG-400

Duration 4 days

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The ForgeRock® Identity Gateway Core Concepts course is for students who want to examine core concepts and implement key use cases and features of ForgeRock Identity Gateway (IG) to help extend access to and protect web applications, legacy applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs), within an access management solution. This course comprises a mix of instructor-led lessons and demonstrations with plenty of lab exercises to ensure an opportunity to fully understand each of the topics covered. It provides students with the necessary skills to plan, install, configure, and administer an IG deployment. The main goal of the course is to provide a thorough understanding of, and hands-on experience with IG, so students can control the most important functions of and manage a successful production deployment. Note that Revision B of this course is built on version 6.5 of ForgeRock Identity Gateway.

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

Describe the role and use cases where IG fits within a ForgeRock Identity Platform™ solution, the basic concepts of IG, and how to perform a basic installation and configuration of IG.
Use IG to protect a legacy application.
Configure agentless single sign-on with IG, where authentication can be delegated to AM, including cross-domain, to an OIDC provider, or to a SAML2 Identity provider.
Extend IG to support the retrieval of user profile attributes.
Use IG as a policy enforcement point to protect a given web application, where AM is the policy decision point, and configure authentication step-up and transactional authorization.
Protect a REST API using OAuth2-based solutions.
Extend the solution using scripting.
Prepare for production of an IG project by addressing maintenance, tuning, security, and deployment questions.

Who Can Benefit

The following are the target audiences for this course:

System Integrators
System Consultants
System Architects
System Administrators
Web Developers

Prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites to successfully completing this course:

Basic knowledge and skills using the Linux operating system to complete labs
Basic knowledge of HTTP and communications between clients and web applications is critical to understanding and working with IG
Basic knowledge of JSON, JavaScript, REST, Java, Groovy, SQL, and XML helpful in understanding examples, especially Groovy for scripting within IG
Attendance at AM400 ForgeRock Access Management Core Concepts course or equivalent knowledge

Course Details

Course Contents

Chapter 1: Integrating a web site and a legacy application with IG

Describe the role and use cases where IG fits within a ForgeRock Identity Platform solution, basic concepts of IG, and how to perform a basic installation and configuration of IG.

Lesson 1: Introducing ForgeRock Identity Gateway

Provide an overview of IG
Discuss IG use cases
Present IG features

Lesson 2: Fronting a website with IG

Show how IG acts as a reverse proxy
Discuss proxying WebSocket traffic
Describe installation requirements and install IG
Use IG Studio to protect a website
Examine IG configuration structure

Lesson 3: Routing and processing requests and responses

Understand how IG routes requests depending on external conditions
Describe how Handlers direct requests and responses within a route
Explain how filters process requests and responses
Implement password replay

Lesson 4: Understanding IG Object Model and Logging

Understand the IG object model
Examine request, response, context and session
Use a CaptureDecorator to perform logging
Configure the FileAttributesFilter

Chapter 2: Configuring Agentless Single Sign-On

Demonstrate how to integrate single sign-on in an IG solution by delegating authentication to either an AM solution, including cross-domain, an OIDC provider, or a SAML2 Identity provider.

Lesson 1: Implementing authentication with the SingleSignOnFilter

Use Freeform technology preview to protect a website
Configure an AM Service
Describe the use of the SingleSignOnFilter
Retrieve information from AM using the UserProfileFilter and SessionInfoFilter

Lesson 2: Configuring CDSSO for the legacy application

Describe and implement a CrossDomainSingleSignOnFilter

Lesson 3: Performing SSO with IG as an OpenID Connect relying party

Describe and implement an OAuth2ClientFilter

Lesson 4: Providing SSO with IG as a SAML2 Service Provider

Describe and implement a SAML2FederationHandler
Describe and implement a DispatchHandler

Chapter 3: Controlling access with IG as Policy Enforcement Point

Use IG as a policy enforcement point to protect a given web application, where AM is the policy decision point, using policies and policies with advice to provide authentication step-up and transactional authorization.

Lesson 1: Implementing authorization with a PolicyEnforcementFilter

Describe and implement a PolicyEnforcementFilter

Lesson 2: Providing step-up authentication and transactional authorization

Describe and implement step-up authentication
Describe and implement transactional authorization

Chapter 4: Protecting a REST API

Use IG as an OAuth2 resource server to protect a REST API and demonstrate how the solution can be extended by using scripting.

Lesson 1: Configuring IG as an OAuth2 resource server

Describe and implement an OAuth2ResourceServerFilter
List access token resolvers
Observe the flow with the TokenIntrospectionAccessTokenResolver

Lesson 2: Extending functionality with scripts

Describe the scripting framework for extending IG functionality
Examine and implement dynamic scopes solution

Chapter 5: Preparing for production with IG

Highlight various areas that must be taken into account when preparing to go to production with an IG solution, such as maintenance, tuning, security, and deployment.

Lesson 1: Auditing, monitoring and tuning an IG solution

Describe and implement auditing
Discuss monitoring
Examine tuning questions

Lesson 2: Developing awareness of security questions with IG

Discuss IG best practices regarding security
Examine and implement common secrets
Describe and implement throttling

Lesson 3: Deploying IG

Describe and implement property value substitution
Set up multiple IG instances

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Course Contents

Chapter 1: Integrating a web site and a legacy application with IG

Chapter 2: Configuring Agentless Single Sign-On

Chapter 3: Controlling access with IG as Policy Enforcement Point

Chapter 4: Protecting a REST API

Chapter 5: Preparing for production with IG

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