Ping Identity Announces SignOn.com.New Personal Identity Service Uses OpenID and Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. CardSpace to Deliver Security, Privacy and Control SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Ping Identity www.pingidentity.com today announced the availability of SignOn.com beta, a new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. service designed to provide individuals with better control, security and privacy over their identity on the Internet. SignOn.com https://www.signon.com/ allows individuals to create a single account they can use to securely sign on to any OpenID www.openid.net enabled Web site, eliminating the need for multiple usernames, passwords and profiles. It includes several features designed to secure OpenID interactions including support for Microsoft Windows CardSpace http://cardspace.netfx3.com/. A SignOn.com account can be setup in less than a minute and provides individuals with a personalized OpenID identifier. This single account can be used for login to hundreds of OpenID-enabled Web sites. Companies like AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Sun, Yahoo and Wikipedia have already announced their support for OpenID. Unlike other OpenID providers, SignOn.com includes several capabilities designed to secure OpenID interactions. One of these enhancements is the addition of Information Cards for strong authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. . With this feature, users with Windows CardSpace The identity management system built into Windows Vista, which is also available as a download for Windows XP. Microsoft coined the term "identity metasystem" for a global identity architecture for the Internet and designed CardSpace as its Windows implementation. installed can use a personal information card to authenticate to any OpenID enabled website. The use of information cards and the Windows CardSpace client for stronger card-based authentication effectively eliminates the possibility of password phishing. SignOn.com builds upon Ping Identity's five years of experience in delivering highly secure Internet-scale identity management software to corporations and government agencies. Its federated identity In information technology, federated identity has two general meanings:
"People are just now beginning to realize the Internet is an inherently hostile environment See: operational environment. . With organized crime syndicates focused on consumer identity theft, it's imperative that as an industry we work together to develop the standards, tools and services which can help safeguard one's use of identity on the Internet," 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 security and user-experience by which these services will give better control over privacy needs time to evolve and harden. We believe that time is now." "We believe the Information Card support will help improve the consumers' online experience by extending the security and convenience benefits of the Identity Metasystem An infrastructure that enables different Internet identity systems to work in a secure manner with a consistent user interface. The identity metasystem was first developed by Microsoft and is embodied in the CardSpace system (see Windows CardSpace). to SignOn.com users," said Kim Cameron, Chief Identity Architect at Microsoft. "Microsoft is working with the industry to improve the trustworthiness of the Internet through phishing-resistant Information Card implementations, including Windows CardSpace." In related news, Ping Identity also announced today it will be contributing a generic Information Cards relying party C library to the open source community. This new toolkit will be available in Q3 2007 on Microsoft CodePlex. It is designed to be easily integrated into web servers and content management platforms so they can accept Windows CardSpace self-asserted Information Cards. Ping Identity will also be adding support for Windows CardSpace and OpenID to its commercial software products in the near future. Pricing and Availability The beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of SignOn.com is now available at www.SignOn.com. The service is free. For more information, please visit SignOn.com, contact Ping Identity toll-free at + 1 877.898.2905 or +1 303.468.2882, or email sales@pingidentity.com. About Ping Identity Corporation Ping Identity is uniquely dedicated to delivering Internet-Scale Identity management software and services to organizations and individuals worldwide. Over 100 large enterprises, service providers and government agencies rely on award-winning PingFederate, the industry benchmark for standards-based federated identity management, to secure, protect and control their identity interactions with other organizations. Now, SignOn.com brings these same capabilities to individuals. For more information, please visit www.pingidentity.com. Ping Identity and PingFederate are registered trademarks of Ping Identity Corporation. SignOn.com is a trademark of Ping Identity Corporation. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. |
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