Course Contents

Chapter 1: Enhancing Intelligent Access

Start with an unprotected website and end up with a fully functional access management solution where every user trying to access the website is redirected to ForgeRock® Identity Cloud (Identity Cloud) for authentication.

Lesson 1: Exploring Authentication Mechanisms

Explore the Identity Cloud Admin UI and view the role of cookies used during and after authentication:

• Introduce Identity Cloud authentication
• Describe authentication life cycle
• Explain sessions
• Examine session cookies
• Prepare the lab environment
• Examine Identity Cloud default authentication
• Experiment with session cookies
• Describe the authentication mechanisms of Identity Cloud
• Create and manage journeys
• Explore journey nodes
• Create a login journey
• Test the login journey

Lesson 2: Protecting a Website With IG

Show how IG, integrated with Identity Cloud, can protect a website:

• Present Identity Cloud edge clients
• Describe IG functionality as an edge client
• Review the FEC website protected by IG
• Integrate the FEC website with Identity Cloud
• Observe the IG token cookie
• (Optional) Review IG configuration

Lesson 3: Controlling Access

Create security policies to control which users can access specific areas of the website:

• Describe entitlements with Identity Cloud authorization
• Define Identity Cloud policy components
• Define policy environment conditions and response attributes
• Process of Identity Cloud policy evaluation
• Implement access control on a website

Chapter 2: Improving Access Management Security

Improve access management security in ForgeRock® Identity Cloud (Identity Cloud) with multi-factor authentication, context-based risk analysis, and continuous risk checking.

Lesson 1: Increasing Authentication Security

Increase authentication security using multi-factor authentication (MFA):

• Describe multi-factor authentication
• Register a device
• Include recovery codes
• Examine OATH authentication
• Implement TOTP authentication
• (Optional) Implement HOTP authentication
• Examine Push notification authentication
• Implement passwordless WebAuthn
• (Optional) Implement passwordless WebAuthn
• Examine HOTP authentication using email or SMS
• (Optional) Implement HOTP authentication using email or SMS

Lesson 2: Modifying User's Journey Based on Context

Describe how Identity Cloud can take into account the context of an authentication request in order to take access decisions:

• Introduce context-based risk analysis
• Describe device profile nodes
• Determine the risk based on the context
• Implement a browser context change script
• Lock and unlock accounts
• Implement account lockout

Lesson 3: Checking Risk Continuously

Review the Identity Cloud tools used to check the risk level of requests continuously:

• Introduce continuous contextual authorization
• Describe step-up authentication
• Implement step-up authentication flow
• Describe transactional authorization
• Implement transactional authorization
• Prevent users from bypassing the default journey

Chapter 3: Extending Services using OAuth2-Based Protocols

Implement OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) based protocols; namely, OAuth2 and OpenID Connect 1.0 (OIDC), to enable low-level devices and mobile applications to make requests that access resources belonging to a subscriber. ForgeRock® Identity Cloud (Identity Cloud) is also configured to function as an OIDC client and delegate authentication to social media OIDC providers.

Lesson 1: Integrating Applications With OAuth2

Integrate clients using OAuth2 by demonstrating the use of the OAuth2 Device Code grant type flow with Identity Cloud configured as the OAuth2 authorization server:

• Discuss OAuth2 concepts
• Describe OAuth2 tokens and codes
• Request OAuth2 access tokens with OAuth2 grant types
• Explain OAuth2 scopes and consent
• Configure OAuth2 in Identity Cloud
• Configure Identity Cloud with an OAuth2 client
• Test the OAuth2 Device Code grant type flow

Lesson 2: Integrating Applications With OIDC

Integrate an application using OIDC and the Authorization grant type flow with Identity Cloud as an OIDC provider:

• Introduce OIDC
• Describe OIDC tokens
• Explain OIDC scopes and claims
• List OIDC grant types
• Create and use an OIDC script
• Create an OIDC claims script
• Register an OIDC client and configure the OIDC Provider settings
• Test the OIDC Authorization Code grant type flow

Lesson 3: Transforming OAuth2 Tokens

Request and obtain security tokens from an OAuth2 authorization server, including security tokens that employ impersonation and delegation semantics:

• Describe OAuth2 token exchange
• Explain token exchange types and purpose for exchange
• Describe token scopes and claims
• Implement a token exchange impersonation pattern
• Implement a token exchange delegation pattern
• Configure token exchange in Identity Cloud
• Configure Identity Cloud for token exchange
• Test token exchange flows

Chapter 4: Federating Across Entities Using SAML2

Demonstrate federation across entities using SAML2 with ForgeRock® Identity Cloud (Identity Cloud).

Lesson 1: Implementing SSO Using SAML2

Demonstrate single sign-on (SSO) functionality across organizational boundaries:

• Discuss SAML2 entities and profiles
• Explain the SAML2 flow from the IdP point of view
• Examine SSO across SPs
• Configure Identity Cloud as an IdP and integrate with third-party SPs
• Examine SSO between SP and IdP and across SPs

Lesson 2: Delegating Authentication Using SAML2

Delegate authentication to a third-party IdP using SAML2 and examine metadata:

• Explain the SSO flow from the SP point of view
• Describe the metadata content and use
• Configure Identity Cloud as a SAML2 SP