ForgeRock

ForgeRock
Private
Industry Enterprise software
Founded February 2010 (2010-02)
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Mike Ellis (CEO)[1]
John Fernandez (CFO)[2]
Products ForgeRock Identity Platform[3]
Number of employees
 150+ (2013)[4][5]
Website www.forgerock.com

ForgeRock is a multinational identity and access management software company headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.A.[4] The company develops open source identity and access management products for cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments.[6] Mike Ellis is the CEO of ForgeRock.[1] ForgeRock also has offices in Bristol, London, Grenoble, Vancouver (USA), Oslo, Düsseldorf, Paris, Sydney, and Singapore.[7] ForgeRock has raised $52 million in venture funding from Accel Partners, Foundation Capital, and Meritech Capital Partners.[8]

When Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle in January 2010, Sun’s identity and access management software was scheduled for phase out in favor of Oracle’s in-house product.[9] ForgeRock was founded by a group of ex-Sun employees in February 2010 to continue to develop Sun’s open source identity software.[10][11]

ForgeRock provides identity and access management through its primary product, the ForgeRock Identity Platform.[12] The product is built on Sun’s open source identity and access management projects.[13] The ForgeRock Identity Platform includes Access Management (built from the OpenAM open source project), Identity Management (built from the OpenIDM open source project), Directory Services (built from the OpenDJ open source project), and Identity Gateway (built from the OpenIG open source project).[14] OpenAM provides access management, OpenDJ is an LDAP directory service, OpenIDM is used for identity management, and OpenIG provides an identity gateway for web traffic and application programming interfaces (APIs).[15]

The source code — which has a Sun Microsystems, ForgeRock or community copyright — is freely available for use, under the terms of the Open Source Common Development and Distribution License. ForgeRock also provides pre-compiled, verified binary files,[11] which are free of charge for use in proof-of-concept and prototype systems, but require a paid ForgeRock subscription for use in a production system.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Company Overview of ForgeRock AS". Bloomberg. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  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. ↑ Hautala, Laura (January 28, 2016). "It's Data Privacy Day. Do you know where your data is?". CNET. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  4. 1 2 "ForgeRock". CrunchBase. August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ "ForgeRock Raises $30M to Manage Online Identities".
  6. ↑ "Company Overview of ForgeRock AS". Bloomberg. August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Bristol ForgeRock staff produce their own special brew in the basement". Bristol Post. November 12, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ Butcher, Mike. "ForgeRock Raises $30M For Its Open Source Identity Platform For Enterprise".
  9. 1 2 Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (May 10, 2010). "Sun open source reborn in ForgeRock". Computerworld.
  10. ↑ "ForgeRock aim to bring open source stack concept to IAM". 11 December 2012.
  11. 1 2 Novet, Jordan. "Gigaom - ForgeRock grabs $15M to push access and identity management software".
  12. ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150121005375/en/ForgeRock-FireEye-Join-Forces-Detect-Cyber-Attacks#.ViGSchCrT_Q
  13. ↑ "An Update on @ForgeRock: This company is quietly transforming the entire stack of enterprise identity management, access control and authorization capabilities - CTOvision.com". 8 January 2014.
  14. ↑ "Open Source IAM Solutions Maker ForgeRock Raises $15 Million - SecurityWeek.Com".
  15. ↑ "ForgeRock Raises $30M for Open-Source Identity-Relationship Tech". eWeek. June 19, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2016.

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