Ping Identity Announces Additions to PingFederate Integration Kit Family; Turnkey Integration Kits Simplify Implementation of Federated Identity for Web Single Sign-On with SAML and WS-Federation.DENVER -- Ping Identity, the leading provider of federated identity In information technology, federated identity has two general meanings:
SSO - single sign-on ) and identity-enabled Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , today announced the expansion of its PingFederate Integration Kit family to include both Windows Kerberos and Oracle/Oblix COREid. These new Integration Kits join Ping's existing family of adapters for Windows Login, Java and .NET applications, CA eTrust SiteMinder and Salesforce.com in providing turnkey first and last mile integration when configuring PingFederate to deliver Web SSO using 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.x, SAML 2.0 and WS-Federation. Federated identity allows one organization to accept identity information and authentication operations from another organization. With federation, users can sign-on once with a single username and password and access multiple Web applications running in many locations. Deploying an end-to-end federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. single sign-on system requires first-mile integration with the system performing authentication (the Identity Provider or IdP) and last-mile integration with the target system being accessed (the Service Provider or SP). Ping's new COREid Integration Kits support both version 6.x and 7.0 of COREid and allow it to act as both an IdP and a SP. The new Windows Kerberos Integration Kit allows users to single sign-on into Windows applications that uses Kerberos tickets for authentication. Like all Ping Integration Kits, these new products are protocol-independent in that they work with every federation protocol PingFederate uses when connecting with federation partners. They will be available for download from Ping's Web site in Q2 2006. Most federated identity products are components of larger identity management suites. Sometimes, the federation technology only works if purchased along other suite components. While these products typically provide integration with the rest of their suite, they do not offer out-of-the-box integration with products from other vendors. Ping Identity takes a different approach. Since Ping is not a suite vendor, it designed PingFederate to work with any identity management suite its customers may be deploying, whether that suite be a commercial product or homegrown. Furthermore, PingFederate works equally well for customers who do not have an identity management suite and who do not want to go through the time and expense of deploying one. All current PingFederate Integration Kits are available today for immediate download from Ping Identity's product download page at http://www.pingidentity.com/products/pingfederate/download. Under Ping's innovative 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. Now! Program, they can be used for free while PingFederate is still in its 100,000 free transactions phase. For more information, please contact Ping Identity at 303.468.2882 or info@pingidentity.com. About Ping Identity Corporation Ping Identity Corporation (www.pingidentity.com) provides enterprise software and services for standards-based Web single sign-on and federated identity management. Ping's products focus exclusively on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , lightweight and cost-effective solutions that are easy to deploy and manage. Ping's customers include American Express, E*Trade, Fidelity Investments, Sprint, Cisco, Siebel, Merck, 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, TriNet, MedCommons, Mercer and Allscripts. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. |
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