Netegrity Extends Universal Federation Architecture Through Partnerships with Ping Identity and Trustgenix.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Interoperability with SiteMinder Provides Customers with Multiple Options for Implementing Identity Federation Netegrity, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETE), a leading provider of identity and access management solutions, today announced that it has extended its federation offerings through partnerships with Ping Identity and Trustgenix. The interoperability between Netegrity(R) SiteMinder(R) technology and Ping Identity's SourceID(TM) and Trustgenix IdentityBridge(TM) provides customers with another option for enabling federated identity In information technology, federated identity has two general meanings:
Today, Netegrity has more than 60 federation customers and as these customers federate fed·er·ate v. fed·er·at·ed, fed·er·at·ing, fed·er·ates v.tr. To cause to join into a league, federal union, or similar association. v.intr. To become united into a federal union. with their business partners they are realizing that each partner has different deployment needs and skills. To meet the needs of its customers, Netegrity is offering several options for providing federated identity end points for partners: --SiteMinder provides a full federation solution that both produces and consumes identities and supports a range of standards including 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 and Liberty ID-FF ID-FF Identity Federation Framework (Liberty Alliance) . In this scenario, a company with SiteMinder on one end can federate with a partner using a standards compliant security system, including SiteMinder, on the other end. --Netegrity also offers the SiteMinder SAML Affiliate Agent. This software enables a SiteMinder customer to provide their partner with a lightweight solution for consuming SAML identities. --With SiteMinder interoperability with Ping Identity's SourceID and Trustgenix IdentityBridge, a company with SiteMinder can now federate with a partner that implements either the Ping Identity or Trustgenix solutions. Ping Identity's SourceID and Trustgenix IdentityBridge provide solutions that support both Liberty ID-FF and SAML protocols, and produce and consume identities. "As companies continue to put federation deployments into production, the need for a proven, lightweight, standards-based solution for federating identities between Netegrity SiteMinder customers and their partners has become clear," said Andre Durand André Durand (born Canada 1947) is a painter working in the European tradition. He is heir to such painters as Rubens, Titian and Velasquez. Although Durand is perhaps best known for his allegorical portraits, such as Princess Diana as Fortuna, he achieved international , 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. of Ping Identity Corporation. "The proven integration between Ping Identity SourceID and Netegrity SiteMinder significantly lowers the cost of federation deployments while delivering increased security and improved access to cross-domain resources." "Trustgenix IdentityBridge, a widely interoperable multi-protocol federation server, is an excellent complement to the industry leading SiteMinder product from Netegrity," said Greg Whitehead, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Trustgenix, Inc. "The flexible architecture of IdentityBridge makes it easy for the partners of SiteMinder customers to federate with SiteMinder out-of-the-box without disruption to existing identity infrastructure." The Netegrity(R) Universal Federation Architecture(TM) enables companies to securely share identity information across applications within the enterprise as well as to external partner companies. Netegrity provides customers with a broad choice of standards to use in their federation implementations, including Liberty, SAML, and WS-Security. In addition, Netegrity is the only vendor that enables comprehensive deployments that span both browser-based and Web services-based federation. Using Netegrity's identity and access management products, customers are able to incorporate their federated identity initiatives as part of an enterprise-wide identity management infrastructure. "Netegrity's customers have realized the benefit of establishing federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. environments with their partners," said Vadim Lander, CTO at Netegrity. "To meet their evolving requirements, we are working with key federation partners, including Ping Identity and Trustgenix, to provide our customers with multiple federation deployment options." Netegrity and Trustgenix will be demonstrating interoperability in the Netegrity hospitality suite on the evening of July 21st at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference being held in San Diego, CA. About Netegrity Netegrity, Inc. is a leading provider of security software solutions that securely manage identities and their access to enterprise information assets, letting business in while keeping risk out. Netegrity provides a comprehensive identity and access management product line for continuously evolving computing environments, including legacy, Web, and service-oriented architectures. Netegrity's flexible, standards-based offerings increase security, reduce administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. , and enable revenue enhancement revenue enhancement An increase in revenues, especially by way of increased taxes. Revenue enhancement includes reducing taxpayer deductions and eliminating tax credits. . Supported by a network of over 1200 trained integration consultants and 300 technology partners, Netegrity solutions are licensed for more than 350 million users at nearly 850 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit http://www.netegrity.com. Netegrity, SiteMinder, IdentityMinder, TransactionMinder, and Universal Federation Architecture are trademarks or registered trademarks of Netegrity, Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. Various statements in this release concerning Netegrity's future expectations, plans, and prospects constitute forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. for the purposes of the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. 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