ForgeRock Inc., a startup created by Sun Microsystems veterans after their company was bought by Oracle, said on Tuesday it has raised $15 million in funding.
ForgeRock Inc., a startup created by Sun Microsystems veterans after their company was bought by Oracle, said on Tuesday it has raised $15 million in funding.
Don’t look now, but there’s another player in the identity-management business landing significant rounds of venture capital funding. ForgeRock, a San Francisco startup led by a bunch of former Sun Microsystems execs, announced today that it has secured a $15 million Series B round of venture capital funding. Accel Partners,...
ForgeRock made a major investment announcement today. A $15 Million Series B round of venture capital financing was secured, led by Foundation Capital and participated in by Accel Partners.
When Oracle finished buying Sun Microsystems in 2010, it got Sun’s identity and access management software, among many other technologies, but Oracle already had its own versions in its Fusion line of middleware. Within a few months, many of the Sun employees who worked on the identity and access management software — for...
Investment in open identity and access management underscores demand for new method of securing cloud, social, mobile and enterprise environments SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – April 9, 2013 – ForgeRock Inc., the pioneer of open source identity and access management (IAM), today announced it has closed a $15 million Series B round...
Allan Foster accepts position to further identity community’s mission for secure, identity-based, online interactions SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 26, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — ForgeRock Inc., the pioneer of open source Identity and Access Management (IAM), announced today that Allan Foster, vice president of community, has been elected President of the Board...
One of the hardest nuts to crack has been for the industry to develop a capability for IT professionals that makes identity authentication easy while at the same time making it more secure.
Updated Stack transforms and simplifies identity and access management to protect public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, SaaS, and enterprise environments. SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ForgeRock Inc., the pioneer of open source identity and access management (IAM), today announced the next release of the ForgeRock Open Identity Stack, the only unified, 100%...
Allan Foster brings over 25 years of high-technology experience to the organization’s governing board San Francisco — January 21, 2013 — ForgeRock Inc., the pioneer of open source Identity and Access Management (IAM), announced today that Allan Foster, vice president of community, has been named to the IEEE-Industry Standards and...
ForgeRock Headquarters: San Francisco Founded: 2009 in Oslo, Norway Funding: $7 million from Accel Partners, and an undisclosed sum from Sun co-founder Scott McNealy Leader: Mike Ellis, CEO (former senior exec with SAP, Oracle, i2 Technologies) and Lasse Andresen, CTO (former Sun exec) Why we’re watching it: ForgeRock‘s software, Open Identity Stack,...
With ‘a new approach to identity management’, the UK recently saw the launch of ForgeRock. Speaking to vice president of marketing Daniel Ruskin, he told me that its product is ‘the only fully supported open source identity management solution for supporting legacy, enterprise and next generation mobile and social application...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — December 11, 2012 — Forgerock Inc., the pioneer of open source Identity and Access Management (IAM), today announced its Adaptive Authentication Module, providing organizations with a risk-based authentication and fraud detection system to help address malicious attacks generated by password breaches and theft. The add-on module extends ForgeRock’s OpenAM solution, the world’s...
You may have heard of ForgeRock, the providers of open identity solutions. But if you have been busy (and who hasn’t been?) you might not have realized the rapid uptake of their solution among a diverse, global customer base. I spoke with their CTO and founder Lasse Andresen today and was...
ForgeRock Inc., a provider of open source identity and access management software, said it has named Mike Ellis as the company’s new chief executive. Mr. Ellis has held senior leadership roles at SAP AG and i2 Technologies, now part of JDA Software Group , and prior to that he held senior roles at Oracle Corp ....
Back in August (“Open Source IAM – is it right for you?”) I wrote about my friend Brad Tumy’s Open Source Identity Solutions list and spent a paragraph or two on ForgeRock OpenAMб which, I told myself, I’d try to get back to with more information for you. So recently I chatted...
Former SAP Executive to Drive Corporate Growth and Expansion of Market-Leading Open Identity Stack SAN FRANCISCO, CA — December 4, 2012 – ForgeRock, the pioneer of open source Identity and Access Management (IAM), announced that it has named Mike Ellis as the company’s new chief executive officer. A veteran software...
Smart421 says the IT services goliaths “did not see it coming” after snagging a multimillion-pound, six-year deal to provide a next-generation ticket issuing system to the UK rail industry. The KCOM-owned IT consultancy has been awarded a multi-year contract to design, build and manage a new live sales management system for Rail Settlement...
Rail Settlement Plan (RSP), the company that provides IT and retail services to UK rail operators, is upgrading its systems with AWS cloud to provide a next-generation ticket issuing systems as a growing number of commuters adopt the “click and collect” model. The system will provide the rail industry with...
You may not have heard of ForgeRock; I hadn’t either, but that’s because they’ve launched quietly, building up their customer base before investing in a marketing push which began this August. They wanted to wait until they had something to shout about, and now it seems, they do. ‘The ForgeRockers,’...
ForgeRock announced availability of an open source stack to secure applications and services across enterprise, cloud, social and mobile environments. With more than 250K downloads in less than 24 months, theForgeRock Open Identity Stack is building a community of global companies working to deploy an identity management infrastructure.
Startup ForgeRock makes its official debut today with cloud-based open-source identity and access management (IAM) software called Open Identity Stack intended to be used by enterprises and service providers to enable centralized provisioning and access management to enterprise, mobile and software-as-a-service applications.
Den opprinnelig norske programvareutvikleren Forgerock melder at de er klare med en fullt ut integrert ID-stack i åpen kildekode for å sikre applikasjoner og tjenester gjennom hele bedriften, tilpasset mobil, sosial og nettskymiljøer: Open Identity Stack.
Agile Platform Revolutionizes Identity and Access Management with Highly Scalable, Open Source, Cost-Effective, All-in-One Model SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – November 14, 2012 – ForgeRock Inc., the pioneer of open source Identity and Access Management (IAM), today announced availability of the first and only unified, 100% Open Source Stack to secure...
Disruptive Open Source Identity and Access Management for Social, Mobile and Cloud Platforms Supported by Expert Systems Integrator SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and OTTAWA, Canada – October 11, 2012 – ForgeRock, the pioneer of Open Source Identity & Access Management (IAM), today announced 2Keys Security Solutions has become a Gold Level consulting...
ForgeRock, an open source vendor behind the I³ Open platform, teams up with ICSynergy International, an Identity and Access Management consulting and systems integration firm. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. –August 10, 2012 – ForgeRock I³ Open Platform offers a complete solution in the field of identity and access management (IAM), solving complex...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – April 16, 2012 – ForgeRock is pleased to announce the general availability of OpenAM 10.0.0, one of the key products in the I³ Open Platform. ForgeRock strengthens OpenAM Authentication, Authorization and Federation capabilities by adding OAuth 2.0, Risk Based Authentication and the Open Identity Gateway. In addition,...
ForgeRock and IdentityForge join forces in a technology partnership, now offering a broader product line and new integration possibilities for Identity & Access Management solutions. OSLO, Norway – March 2, 2012 – This alliance strengthens the unified, standards based ForgeRock approach for companies seeking identity management solutions. Adding the support...
OSLO, Norway – March 2, 2012 – ForgeRock, the open source vendor behind the I³ Open Identity Platform, today announced that it has raised USD$7 million in series A funding from global venture firm Accel Partners. ForgeRock selected Accel Partners after receiving a high level of interest from several of the...
Syntegrity Networks shines as a NA market leader in ForgeRock resale and delivery VANCOUVER, Wash. – January 24, 2012 – After a resounding end to 2011 during which Syntegrity Networks positioned itself as a market leader in the resale and delivery of ForgeRock products in North America, the company is...
Next generation Open Source initiative takes on Identity Management in both the Enterprise and the Cloud OSLO, Norway – January 17, 2012 – ForgeRock, the vendor behind the I³ Open Identity Platform, today announced OpenIDM 2.0, the next generation open source Identity Management (IDM) solution. IDM solutions are not new. After...
Integrated Open Source Solution Drives Proven Cost Reductions SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 16, 2012 – ForgeRock and Qubera Solutions announces a strategic partnership to address the growing number of customers looking to solve their complex access and compliance challenges using a standards-based approach. With the increasing global adoption of open...
Enable Fine-grained Authorization and Single Sign-On with the RadiantOne Virtual Directory Server and ForgeRock OpenAM. NOVATO, Calif. – October 18, 2011 – Radiant Logic, the market leader for identity and context virtualization solutions, announces its newest partnership with ForgeRock, the leading provider in the open source identity and access management...
ForgeRock and KOGIT Sponsor Free Community Summit in Darmstadt, Germany OSLO, Norway – October 7, 2011 – ForgeRock today announced that a Summit for the community around the OpenIDM project – open source identity management and provisioning – will be held in Darmstadt, Germany, on November 8, 2011. The Summit is...
S&T CIS has become a ForgeRock Gold Partner, the first in Russia. MOSCOW – September 13, 2011 – S&T CIS was awarded the status of ForgeRock Gold Partner according to its Consulting Partner Program. Gold status confirms the high level of the S&T specialists’ qualification. It entitles the partner to provide...
May 25, 2011 – ForgeRock, the open source identity-oriented middleware company, has been named a “Cool Vendor” in a new report from Gartner Inc. The April 21, 2011 report by Ray Wagner, John Girard, Gregg Kreizman, Ant Allan, Earl Perkins and Perry Carpenter is entitled “Cool Vendors in Identity and Access...
May 23, 2011 – ForgeRock is delighted to welcome Intragen as a Gold level partner, offering the highest levels of service for the I3platform. As a market leading Identity & Access Management company with a strong track record in open single sign-on and open source, Intragen now delivers consulting and training...
OSLO, Norway – May 10, 2011 – ForgeRock, the open source identity-oriented middleware company, joined with a global community of contributors today to launch a new open source community, OpenICF, to host multi-purpose connectors using the well-established Identity Connector Framework (ICF). The OpenICF Project will make interoperability between identity, compliance and...
OSLO, Norway – April 5, 2011 – Yubico, provider of the popular authentication token YubiKey, and ForgeRock, the leading enterprise open source identity and access management software company, today announced that YubiKey is now supported in ForgeRock OpenAM. Cloud computing brings computer and data resources to the cloud and offers higher...
Expands Presence in Asia Pacific Offers Smooth Migration Option for Sun Microsystems’ OpenSSO and OpenDS Users PORTLAND, Ore. – February 23, 2011 – ForgeRock, the dynamic global open source company with offices in the US, UK, France and Norway today announced that it has entered into a partnership with First Point...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 14, 2011 – ForgeRock today described its outstandingly successful first year of operations delivering open source, standards-based identity platform solutions to high-scale customers, and started the new year with news that web identity pioneer ApexIdentity are merging with ForgeRock, bringing both technology and key skills to...
GCA Technology Services has become the first training company to be appointed as an authorized ForgeRock partner in the US. GCA Technology Services was chosen for its reputation and proven track record in developing and delivering world class identity management and web infrastructure training, as well as its wide-reaching US...
A lightweight but flexible open source Java based IDM and provisioning solution Preview release – OpenIDM Snapshot 1 – available now Provides solution for Sun customers waiting for open source IDM Fully open source project to create future OpenIDM product GOSCON – PORTLAND, Ore. – October 27, 2010 – Further extending...
ForgeRock Adds Directory Service Project OpenDJ to Portfolio LDAPv3 compliant directory service 100% pure Java Multi-Master Replication High-availability and disaster recovery options Open World Forum – PARIS – October 1, 2010 – Further extending its open source access and identity management portfolio, ForgeRock today announced they have added the OpenDJ open...
First fully community-sourced release of OpenAM now available More than 18 months of innovations and engineering efforts has delivered an enterprise production environment alternative for Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8 customers OSCON – PORTLAND, Ore. – July 22, 2010 – ForgeRock today announced general availability of OpenAM 9.5 software, the latest...
Companies to collectively enhance OpenAM code and community development efforts TOKYO – June 14, 2010 – ForgeRock, an open source software company started by former Sun Microsystems executives in February 2010, and Open Source Solution Technology (OSSTech, CEO: Koji Odagiri) have reached an agreement on joint development of OpenAM Identity...
Former Sun Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps Joins ForgeRock as Chief Strategy Officer Betfair Online Sports Betting Company and NSB AS Norwegian Railways Select ForgeRock’s OpenAM Identity Management Solution STAVANGER, Norway – May 10, 2010 – ForgeRock, the official stewards of the ForgeRock I3 Open Platform project, today provided...
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