ForgeRock
ForgeRock is a multinational identity and access management software company headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.A. with offices in Bristol, London, Grenoble, Vancouver, Oslo, Munich, Paris, Sydney, and Singapore. The company develops commercial open source identity and access management products for internet of things, customer, cloud, mobile, and enterprise environments. Fran Rosch is the CEO of ForgeRock. ForgeRock has raised $140 million in venture funding from Accel Partners, Foundation Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and KKR.
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.
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. 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, so the "founders started their own company to fork the code and continue developing Sun’s software."
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."Products
ForgeRock provides digital identity management through its primary product, the ForgeRock Identity Platform. The ForgeRock Identity Platform includes Access Management, Identity Management, Directory Services, and Identity Gateway. 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. ForgeRock also offers a Profile and Privacy Management Dashboard for compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation and provides support for the User-Managed Access 2.0 standard.
Despite being based on software owned by Sun Microsystems and published under an open source license, the enterprise version of the ForgeRock Identity Platform can only be accessed by purchasing a commercial license. The source code of the community version is publicly available under the terms of the Common Development and Distribution License.
