ForgeRock announces new functionality and simplicity to its Identity Platform

By Pavithra R

ForgeRock, a multinational digital identity and access management software company, announced updates across its ForgeRock Identity Platform.

The platform powers simple, secure experiences that reduce business costs and empower users. The latest platform update provides enterprises with cloud enhancements to minimise downtime and modernise DevOps practices.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) are fundamental to digital transformation for global organisations. For enabling these, deploying a cloud-enabled modern platform built for scale and flexibility is the key. The updates focus on three core areas: enabling personalised experiences, modernising IT for business agility and advancing the next generation cloud environment. The latest version expects to radically simplify IAM, giving organisations the tools needed to provide friction-free digital experiences.

“When you move identity to a cloud-delivered service it helps accelerate innovation while optimising value. ForgeRock has the flexibility to deploy identity and access management on any cloud platform, helping drive value for our customers. The ForgeRock Identity Cloud helps reduce deployment costs and on-going software management. Also, in the case of customers not ready for an as-a-service delivery model, out-of-the-box Cloud and DevOps capabilities can help speed deployments,” said Sean Joyce, Global and US Cybersecurity, Privacy and Forensics Leader at PwC.

Key updates included in the ForgeRock Identity Platform are:

• Personalised experiences: ForgeRock Go extends the company’s passwordless authentication capabilities by adding usernameless. The company is providing enhanced authentication experience with self-service trees for password resets, registration and more,
• Modernising IT for business agility: The company has added new UI, IoT starter kit with drag-and-drop nodes for bringing new digital services to the market; Intelligent Access that enables IT to create and orchestrate and secure personalised login journeys with a point-and-click interface; and more tools, documentation, and implementation guidance.
• Cloud Advancements: Containerized directory with automated DevOps to make installation and elastic scaling with replication quick and error-free; streamline CI/CD for zero-downtime upgrades. ForgeRock is offering the flexibility to deploy on any combination of environments: a private cloud data center, a public cloud (GCP, AWS or Azure) or the ForgeRock cloud.

“These latest updates and features accelerate organisations’ digital transformation initiatives, as everyone adjusts to a new normal of work and life. The ForgeRock Identity Platform available also as part of ForgeRock Identity Cloud delivers new, integrated solutions to combat common challenges, including forgotten passwords,” said Peter Barker, chief product officer, ForgeRock.

Founded in 2010, ForgeRock is a provider of identity platform for the identity & access management market. The platform is being used by more than 1,100 organisations including Aktia Bank, Agfa, BinckBank, Pearson, Axalta and more. Recently The company raised $93.5 mn in Series E funding led by Riverwood Capital.