CA OEMs PingFederate From Ping Identity to Ease Onboarding of Identity Federation Partners.PingFederate Technology Provides Partner-Enabling End Point to Expand Identity Federation Capabilities in eTrust SiteMinder DENVER -- Ping Identity Corporation announced today that it has signed a strategic OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partnership agreement with CA, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CA), makers of the eTrust SiteMinder Web access management product. Under the terms of the agreement, Ping Identity has licensed its PingFederate technology to CA, enabling eTrust SiteMinder customers to ease the onboarding of federation partners. Over the past 12 months, the market for federated identity In information technology, federated identity has two general meanings:
eTrust SiteMinder offers customers a broad range of options to quickly and easily establish a secure, standards-based connection with federation partners. By leveraging PingFederate technology, eTrust SiteMinder is providing its customers with another option to easily enable these identity federation partnerships. "Enterprises are using identity federation to implement their extended enterprise security strategy as it is the only standards-based approach that can scale to accommodate the hundreds of trading partners most firms interact with," said Andre Durand, Ping Identity CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our federation technology, when used with eTrust SiteMinder federation capabilities, provides a comprehensive solution which can be used to enable both sides of an identity federation partnership." "To further accelerate identity federation as a core business enabler, it's essential that interconnecting with partners is as easy as possible," said Bilhar Mann, senior vice president of Identity and Access Management at CA. "Leveraging the robust and flexible identity federation features as part of CA's broad identity and access management solution, customers are able to easily, securely and cost effectively accommodate a growing number of identity federation partners." About PingFederate Award-winning PingFederate is a standalone federation server with multi-protocol capabilities for SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) An XML-based format from OASIS for exchanging security information for single sign-on. The "assertions" are statements from a SAML authority that authenticate a user, confirm some attribute about the individual and grant or 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and WS-Federation single sign-on (SSO See single sign-on and CSO. SSO - single sign-on ). PingFederate can be downloaded directly from Ping Identity at www.pingidentity.com. PingFederate is certified Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 interoperable and GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. E-Authentication compliant. About Ping Identity Corporation Ping Identity is uniquely dedicated to delivering Internet Identity Management software and services that are transforming how organizations work with employees, customers and business partners. Our open and flexible approach offers best-of-breed software complemented with best-in-class service that exceeds the ever-expanding needs of customers like Boeing, Cisco, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Life and the US Department of Justice. Sign on to Ping Identity; sign on to what's next. For more information, please visit www.pingidentity.com, call Ping Identity toll-free at + 1 877.898.2905 or 1 303.468.2882, or email sales@pingidentity.com. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. |
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