ForgeRock, Inc. is a multinational identity and access management software company headquartered in

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, U.S.A. with offices in

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(USA),

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, and

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. The ForgeRock Identity Platform is a full-suite IAM and identity governance and administration (IGA) solution, can be implemented across an organization for all identities (workforce, consumers and things), and offers feature parity across all delivery options, including on-premise, any cloud environment, multi-cloud, hybrid, and as a service (SaaS). Fran Rosch is the CEO of ForgeRock. ForgeRock has raised $250 million in venture funding from

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, Foundation Capital,

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, Riverwood Capital and

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. The company has 1,300 enterprise customers in total, including the BBC, BMW,

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, Maersk,

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, Weight Watchers (WW), and more. ForgeRock was founded in Norway in February 2010 by a group of former

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employees, after Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation. After the acquisition, the software was scheduled for phase-out in favor of Oracle’s in-house product, so the founders "started their own company to

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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." The company went public in September 2021. It’s listed on the

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under the ticker symbol FORG. On October 11, 2022, private equity firm

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, agreed to purchase ForgeRock for $2.3 billion in an all-cash deal.

Products

The ForgeRock Identity Platform includes a suite of identity management, access management, intelligent access, identity gateway, directory services, identity governance, autonomous identity, and edge security capabilities to serve enterprise consumer, workforce, and IoT requirements. The platform is consumable as a cloud service through ForgeRock Identity Cloud, or deployable through self-managed options, including public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments. 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). ForgeRock Access Management provides access management, ForgeRock Directory Services is an

LDAP The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP ) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Directory servi ...

directory service In computing, a directory service or name service maps the names of network resources to their respective network addresses. It is a shared information infrastructure for locating, managing, administering and organizing everyday items and network r ...

, ForgeRock Identity Management is used for identity management, and ForgeRock Identity Gateway provides an identity gateway for web traffic and

application programming interface An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how ...

s (APIs). ForgeRock also offers a Profile and Privacy Management Dashboard for compliance with the EU

General Data Protection Regulation The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union regulation on data protection and privacy in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and of human rights law, in par ...

(GDPR) and provides support for the

User-Managed Access User-Managed Access (UMA) is an OAuth-based access management protocol standard. Version 1.0 of the standard was approved by the Kantara Initiative on March 23, 2015. As described by the charter of the group that developed UMA, the purpose of the ...

(UMA) 2.0 standard. Originally based on

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software owned by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation), 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

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