ForgeRock

ForgeRock is a multinational identity and access management software company headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.A.[6] with offices in Bristol,[7] London, Grenoble, Vancouver (USA), Oslo, Munich, Paris, Sydney, and Singapore.[8] The company develops commercial open source identity and access management products for internet of things, customer, cloud, mobile, and enterprise environments.[9][10] Fran Rosch is the CEO of ForgeRock.[1] ForgeRock has raised $140 million in venture funding from Accel Partners, Foundation Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and KKR.[11]

ForgeRock
TypePrivate
IndustryEnterprise software
FoundedFebruary 2010 (2010-02)
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Fran Rosch (CEO)[1]
John Fernandez (CFO)[2]
Eve Maler (CTO)[3]
ProductsForgeRock Identity Platform[4]
Revenue$100 million (2019)[5]
Number of employees
500+ (2017)[6]
Websitewww.forgerock.com

The company has 1,100 enterprise customers in total, including BBC, "which uses ForgeRock to authenticate and log not just 45 million users but also the devices they use to access its iPlayer on-demand video streaming service", Comcast, the European Union, a number of major banks, and other government organizations.[12]

ForgeRock was founded in Norway by a group of ex-Sun employees in February 2010 to fork the code and continue to develop Sun’s software.[13][14] When Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle in January 2010, Sun’s open source identity and access management software was scheduled for phase out in favor of Oracle’s in-house product,[15] so the "founders started their own company to fork the code and continue developing Sun’s software."[16]

In April 2020, ForgeRock announced that it has raised $93.5 million in funding, a Series E it will use to continue expanding, which "brings the total raised by the company to $230 million."[12]

Products

ForgeRock provides digital identity management through its primary product, the ForgeRock Identity Platform.[17][18] The ForgeRock Identity Platform includes Access Management (based on the OpenAM open source project), Identity Management (based on the OpenIDM open source project), Directory Services (based on the OpenDJ open source project), and Identity Gateway (based on the OpenIG open source project).[19] ForgeRock Access Management provides access management, ForgeRock Directory Services is an LDAP directory service, ForgeRock Identity Management is used for identity management, and ForgeRock Identity Gateway provides an identity gateway for web traffic and application programming interfaces (APIs).[9][20] ForgeRock also offers a Profile and Privacy Management Dashboard for compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and provides support for the User-Managed Access (UMA) 2.0 standard.[21]

Despite being based on software owned by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) and published under an open source license, the enterprise version of the ForgeRock Identity Platform can only be accessed by purchasing a commercial license.[22] The source code of the community version is publicly available under the terms of the Common Development and Distribution License.[22]

References
  1. Inc., ForgeRock. "Fran Rosch Named ForgeRock Chief Executive Officer". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  2. Wells, Janet (June 12, 2015). "ForgeRock executive helps identity management firm build a strong team". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  3. "Eve Maler Named Chief Technology Officer at ForgeRock". Security Magazine. Michigan: BNP Media. 2020-03-15. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  4. Hautala, Laura (January 28, 2016). "It's Data Privacy Day. Do you know where your data is?". CNET. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  5. https://tech.eu/brief/forgerock-series-e/
  6. "ForgeRock". CrunchBase. June 2, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  7. "Bristol ForgeRock staff produce their own special brew in the basement". Bristol Post. November 12, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  8. "Contact ForgeRock". www.forgerock.com. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  9. "ForgeRock Redefines Digital Identity Management with Enhanced Capabilities for The Internet of Things". MarketWired. April 3, 2017.
  10. "Company Overview of ForgeRock AS". Bloomberg. August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  11. Hackett, Robert. "ForgeRock Raises $88 Million Ahead of Planned IPO".
  12. "ForgeRock nabs $93.5M for its ID management platform, gears up next for an IPO". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  13. "ForgeRock aim to bring open source stack concept to IAM". 11 December 2012.
  14. Novet, Jordan. "Gigaom - ForgeRock grabs $15M to push access and identity management software".
  15. Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (May 10, 2010). "Sun open source reborn in ForgeRock". Computerworld.
  16. "Digital identity company ForgeRock raises $93.5 million to develop enterprise cloud solution". Tech.eu. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  17. "Deloitte and ForgeRock Announce Alliance to Provide Advanced, Global Customer Identity and Access Management Solutions | Forgerock". www.forgerock.com. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  18. "ForgeRock and FireEye Join Forces to Detect Cyber Attacks with Identity-Aware Threat Intelligence Solution". www.businesswire.com. January 21, 2015.
  19. "Open Source IAM Solutions Maker ForgeRock Raises $15 Million - SecurityWeek.Com".
  20. "ForgeRock Raises $30M for Open-Source Identity-Relationship Tech". eWeek. June 19, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  21. "ForgeRock Delivers First, Comprehensive Interactive Profile and Privacy Dashboard for GDPR Compliance | ForgeRock". www.forgerock.com.
  22. "ForgeRock has shuttered the open-source community, and no longer allows new development on their platform under a permissive license". timeforafork. June 1, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2017.

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