Sessions

These topics cover concepts and implementation procedures to manage sessions in your AM environment.

This information is written for administrators configuring AM’s authentication and authorization components.

Learn about the different types of sessions in AM.

Discover how AM performs step-up authentication.

Decide where sessions should be stored in each realm.

Learn about the session cookie, and why you must secure it.

Name changes for ForgeRock products

Product names changed when ForgeRock became part of Ping Identity.

The following name changes have been in effect since early 2024:

Old name	New name
ForgeRock Identity Cloud	PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud
ForgeRock Access Management	PingAM
ForgeRock Directory Services	PingDS
ForgeRock Identity Management	PingIDM
ForgeRock Identity Gateway	PingGateway

Old name

New name

ForgeRock Identity Cloud

PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud

ForgeRock Access Management

PingAM

ForgeRock Directory Services

PingDS

ForgeRock Identity Management

PingIDM

ForgeRock Identity Gateway

PingGateway

Learn more about the name changes in New names for ForgeRock products in the Knowledge Base.