Blog Posts
Carahsoft Webinar reference tree
Thank you for attending our October 14, 2026, Carahsoft webinar: IdentityIQ Plugins Your Organization Needs. This document contains a convenient list of references and links to the various products and repositories discussed during the presentation.
Grounding an AI Coding Assistant in a Codebase It Can’t See
How we built iid-mcp: an MCP server that puts a private SailPoint IdentityIQ codebase in front of Claude Code, Copilot,
Enhanced ID Proofing in modern IAM
With the increase in social engineering attacks on the rise and the need for heightened security protocol and business processes
Using Azure Functions for SSO
Azure Functions in Microsoft Entra are extremely powerful and easy to implement using whatever programming language you choose. Where we
SailPoint IIQ e-Fix patch IIQSR-940 and IIQ plugins
On November 3, 2025, SailPoint published e-Fix patch IIQSR-940 for IIQ security vulnerability CVE-2025-10280. This patch takes the form of
Onboarding GitLab On-Premise with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud
Introduction When a client asked me to connect GitLab on-premise with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC), I struggled to find
IIQ 8.5 and Instrumental ID software
IIQ 8.5 was released on July 15, 2025! Instrumental Identity architects have already downloaded the new IIQ 8.5 software package,
The History Plugin and IIQ’s Access History
IID’s History Plugin, particularly in combination with our other plugins, remains the state-of-the-art for IIQ Identity History. It does not compete with IIQ’s new Access History, but rather the two complement one another.
IIQCommon quick snippets: Lambda wrappers
This quick post will be about various wrappers in the Utilities and Metered classes. These classes provides lambda-based API for fluently decorating your SailPoint IIQ code.
IIQCommon overview: fluent, type-safe HTML tables
IIQCommon’s table class provides a fluent, type-safe API for generating HTML tables in IIQ scripts.
IIQCommon overview: ThingAccessUtils to lock down every thing
ThingAccessUtils implements the Common Security behavior behind most of Instrumental ID’s plugins, utilities, and other IIQ enhancements
IIQCommon overview: match anything with the Hybrid Object Matcher
This will be part of a blog series providing an overview of the many SailPoint IIQ utilities and tools available
IIQCommon overview: Eliminate boilerplate in plugin resources
This will be part of a blog series providing an overview of the many SailPoint IIQ utilities and tools available
Using Tomcat Rewrites to Customize the UI and Add Friendly URLs in IdentityIQ
Rewriting URLs The problem Let’s say you’ve written a custom SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) plugin that exposes a plugin page. By
In Sync & Secure: Phase 1 Linting and Code Check for IdentityIQ
Continuing the discussion from In Sync & Secure: CI/CD Design Challenges and Considerations: Phase 1 of the DevOps solution standup
In Sync & Secure: CI/CD Design Challenges and Considerations
The minimum viable product of every DevOps solution is to reliably deploy an application in an automated fashion without any
In Sync & Secure: A DevOps Voyage with IdentityIQ and IdentityNow
With Navigate around the corner, we felt now would be an opportune time to share our journey and experiences in
Our new Brand
Identity Works LLC is excited to announce we are now doing business as Instrumental Identity. Our brand and image are important to us and as such we decided it was time for a change.
Identity Works @ SailPoint Developer Days ’23
Identity Works had the privilege of presenting at the first annual SailPoint Developer Days conference. Our team of expert consultants
Higher Education Implementation Suite
Identity Works LLC has been in the field for decades working across all verticals, but we often find ourselves working
IDW SailPoint IIQ Query Plugin
Have you ever needed to query data directly from your IIQ database for reporting? Have you ever wanted to test
IDW Sailpoint IIQ History Plugin
The Instrumental Identity IIQ History Plugin painlessly enhances auditing and event tracking within existing IIQ systems, offering greater visibility to
Announcing the open-source IIQCommon library
IdentityWorks is pleased to announce the availability of the “public subset” of our feature-rich IIQCommon library, which you can find
IdentityWorks Sailpoint IIQ UI Enhancer Plugin
The SailPoint IIQ user interface is far more user-friendly and reliable than the interface of competing identity managers. However, from
Mysterious password changes in OIM 11.1.2.3 and newer
There is a strange behavior of OIM 11.1.2.3, which appears to still be present in 12c, that causes unexpected password changes
Running Powershell via SailPoint’s IQService
When creating business logic for a connector in SailPoint IdentityIQ, it is sometimes necessary to run a Powershell script “out of
Running SailPoint IIQ in Docker
At Navigate 2019, several people expressed interest in IDW’s containerized version of SailPoint IIQ, so here it is in publicly
Automated OIM Configuration Deployments
A majority of organizations implementing Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) struggle with migration and deployment procedures. Migrating a newly developed connector
OIM and Weblogic vulnerability
Weblogic and OIM are vulnerable to Java deserialization attacks over the network. This vulnerability was reported to Oracle in 2015
Creating an Identity System to handle Multi-valued attributes
Organizations in verticals such as Higher Education have requirements around multi-affiliation and multi-valued identity data. In this blog post we