ForgeRock Grabs $15M to push Access & Identity Management Software

Summary: Formed after the Oracle bought Sun, ForgeRock has emerged as a contender in the access and identity management space, and it seeks more consumer-facing deployments.

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 authenticating and keeping track of the permissions of a given website’s users — started working on their own software based on what was already available in open source, focusing not on enterprises’ internal employees but on end users from all over the world. They started a company of their own, ForgeRock.