ForgeRock Initial Setup

Trisha Bhola - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at Cognizant

I worked on two different projects based on ForgeRock, and both are automated deployments. One is a UI-based deployment. It's an automated process using some scripts.  

The deployments are done through Octopus, so it's also automated. We first deploy the essential components of AM and then implement additional configurations like Amster Imports. After that, we import all the SAML Federation data and add some certificates.

We have two teams of five and three team members working on the different deployment processes. One is working on the dev side, another is looking at the higher environment, and one is managing the data.

In another project, I'm the only developer. We also deploy on the dev environments so that anyone can test new features, configurations, and client requirements. They can test it on the dev environment, but a team of four people manages higher environments.

The Access Management component involves the most customization, which takes around 15 to 20 minutes because of the need to import the Amster configuration. If another deployment is simultaneously happening, it may be a little slower and take around 30 minutes. The other components, like the user data stores, take about five to seven minutes. It's another five to 10 minutes for Identity Management. 

After deployment, the maintenance is mostly checking for security vulnerabilities. If ForgeRock shares security vulnerabilities or advisories, we check to see if there is something inside we need to maintain. Other than that, we just install updates when they add features each month.  

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SP
Identity Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is straightforward to some extent when it comes to integrating with Active Directory and LDAP. These are the only two straightforward components. 

If you want to configure it in the distributed architecture, for example, you need to deploy ForgeRock in five data centers and you need to have that session replicated across all the different data centers. You need to set up a code token service and schema when using Forgerock and this cannot be automated. The setup takes a few weeks. 

If you try to deploy a patch, that patch has to be backwardly compatible with the custom development. We cannot use patches as they are released by ForgeRock. The reason is that that patch might inhibit the custom code that is developed. What we have to do is re-engineer the custom node to work with the most up-to-date patch. 

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SQ
CEO at a non-profit with 1-10 employees

ForgeRock's initial setup is straightforward. It's not complex for an experienced engineer or developer.

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Jatin Sawhney - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Associate Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is out of the box and simple, especially if you are creating a basic user journey with a registration and login. If you are going with an identity gateway, it may require some basic understanding about the technology.

To deploy it from start to finish, took six to seven months.

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Yonca Yadigar - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup of the solution wasn't complex, but there was very little guidance available.

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VK
Technology Solutions Leader at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup wasn't too complex. I didn't think it was any difficult. I sometimes believe I don't give enough credit to my team. Some of my team members have upwards of about 20 years experience in doing this. They're doing these types of implementations all of the time and they make it seem very easy. I haven't heard a single problem from them. They seem to have handled the entire process very well.

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Harjinder Singh Dhanjal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technology Architect at Infosys

The initial setup for ForgeRock was easy.

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Daouda Faye - PeerSpot reviewer
Integrator Solution at ITR

The product is easy to set up. However, the evaluation setup lacks a few components. I rate the process a nine out of ten. The deployment involves access management and directory services configuration. It is time-consuming to set components like directory table policies and target DNS. It takes around ten days to complete.

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SmritiGupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior CyberSecurity Consultant at RNS

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a five out of ten.

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BG
Technology Security Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is easy but I would recommend having some knowledge on the container, where you deploy the applications, and how it's done.

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MY
Cyber Security Consultant at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Its implementation is a little bit complex. It took us between four to six months. 

In terms of the implementation strategy, we identified the functional aspects and tried to see if it would meet the needs. After that, we implemented it in the Dev environment, and after that, we implemented it in the Production environment.

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RAVI NELLUTLA - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Analyst at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup of ForgeRock can be complex based on what kind of integration nodes we are connecting.

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SA
ForgeRock Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The deployment is straightforward and doesn't take a lot of time. There's a lot of documentation available. It's a matter of defining the process. 

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SA
Identity and Access Manager at Freiberufler

The deployment depends on the use cases and the size of the company. It can be complex for bigger environments, but for smaller companies, it is straightforward. For example, for one of the biggest chemical companies in Germany, we were searching millions of identities. We didn't apply it at the end because of some budget reasons, and the project was canceled or frozen. 

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it_user997833 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

When you are deployed on these standalone servers, the initial setup is very straightforward. However, when you are talking about the cloud solution, deployment can be a bit tricky.

Deployment took around two to three months. 

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KC
Head Of Service Management at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup of the solution was quite complex because we tried to use it as a Single Sign-On with multiple applications or customers. 

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SS
Sr. IAM Consultant at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is not always straightforward. If we are looking to automate the process, that is not ready currently.  The time it takes to deploy is not a problem and is pretty easy.

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TM
Managing Director at I'curity Solutions

The installation is very simple.

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BY
Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

As I said before, you can install and configure the product in a matter of a few minutes; it’s that easy.

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it_user3801 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architecture Practice Lead at SKY TV New Zealand

Migration involved analysis and solution design. The setup was of medium complexity.

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it_user185874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Complex because of the customizations needed.

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it_user723990 - PeerSpot reviewer
Clustercoördinator Vernieuwing en Ontwikkeling with 501-1,000 employees

I think straightforward.

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EY
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

With the visual aspect, this solution was not easy to set up, but with Dell's tools, it's very easy.

This solution was deployed both on-premises and on the cloud because I work from three different systems. One was on the cloud solution and two of them were with the on-premises deployment.

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