PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud

Getting started: Next steps

Congratulations! You’ve completed all the steps for getting started with Advanced Identity Cloud and have a solid foundation to build upon.

Ping Identity recommends the following next steps to help you prepare for a successful production launch:

  • Get release notifications: Learn more about the Advanced Identity Cloud release process and how to stay up to date with the latest features and enhancements.

  • Training: Take training courses to build your knowledge of Advanced Identity Cloud features and capabilities:

  • Try out use cases: Walk through common Advanced Identity Cloud administration, configuration, and integration tasks in the use case catalog.

  • Explore developer resources:

    • Explore how to integrate your mobile and web apps with Ping SDKs.

    • Access standalone API reference content designed for developers integrating with Advanced Identity Cloud.

    • Find more information about developing with Ping Identity on our developer portal.

  • Plan your deployment: Review the documentation planning sections to help you prepare for production deployment. Learn more in Plan for Advanced Identity Cloud and Plan for data object modeling.

  • Plan for security: Review security recommendations to harden your tenant environments, protect network access, and manage risk before going live. In particular, you should consider placing Advanced Identity Cloud behind your own Web Application Firewall (WAF) using Proxy Connect to add application-layer security controls tailored to your organization. Learn more in Plan for security.

  • Review best practices: Revisit the "Best practices and next steps" sections in this guide to help you with your production deployment.

  • Review performance and load testing guidelines: Understand the Advanced Identity Cloud performance and load testing policy, including expectations, constraints, and best practices for validating your tenant.

  • Stream logs to external tools: Learn how to stream audit and debug logs from Advanced Identity Cloud to your external monitoring and security tools.

  • Secure your own email provider before go live: If you used the Advanced Identity Cloud email service for testing purposes, make sure to set up and configure your own email provider before going live.

  • Join the community: If you haven’t already done so, join the Ping Identity Community to connect with other users and Advanced Identity Cloud experts.