PingFederate v3 With SAML 2.0 Now Available for Immediate Download; New Features Focus on Simplicity and Scalability, Making Web Single Sign-On Easier Than Ever.DENVER -- Ping Identity Corporation announced today the general availability of PingFederate v3, the only identity federation server built from the ground up to provide best-in-class 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 2.0 functionality. PingFederate v3 allows Fortune 1000 and mid-sized organizations to easily and cost effectively bridge security domains across partner, supplier and customer organizations by providing web single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. (SSO See single sign-on and CSO. SSO - single sign-on ). PingFederate v3 is now available for free download from pingidentity.com under Ping's innovative PingFederate NOW! program. "SAML 2.0 is the primary standard that enterprises should adopt for interoperable authentication and attribute exchange across autonomous domains," said Dan Blum, Senior VP and Research Director, Burton Group. "However, federation is too important and complex to be reduced to a standards checkbox feature. Careful evaluation of products is also important." "21st Century businesses must interact more efficiently with partners and customers and federation must be accessible to every enterprise in today's distributed world," 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, stated. "But by its nature, federated identity In information technology, federated identity has two general meanings:
Simplicity That Scales Built from the ground up to provide the most complete SAML 2.0 support available, PingFederate v3 is an advanced standalone federation server that can be installed and configured in minutes to provide web single sign-on, single logout Signing out and exiting from a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "logout" or "logoff," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log out" or to "log off." See login. and attribute exchange. PingFederate v3 is the easiest SAML 2.0 federated identity solution to acquire, install, learn, configure, integrate, and deploy. SAML 2.0 eliminates a major source of complexity that has plagued the federation industry by incorporating all the critical use cases that previously required five non-interoperable protocols. SAML 2.0 lowers to cost and complexity of deploying federation by greatly diminishing the need for multi-protocol support in federation solutions. PingFederate v3 also introduces Use Case-Driven Configuration -- an intelligent configuration console that walks both first-time and experienced federation administrators through the end-to-end configuration process. Use Case-Driven Configuration reduces the learning curve, minimizes configuration errors and reduces complexity, all important benefits given the SAML 2.0 specification is several times larger and more comprehensive than the predecessor standards it obsoletes. "Use Case-Driven Configuration is a real innovation, particularly its built-in dependency management," said Steve Carlson, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. of TriNet, a nationwide provider of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. services for small and mid-sized companies. "When we need to make a change to a particular parameter, PingFederate v3 automatically determines if any other parameters need changing as well. If they do, it prompts my administrator for the necessary changes so it is impossible to leave the server in a misconfigured state." PingFederate v3 also introduces the federation industry's first Enterprise Deployment Architecture that makes federation a standalone service available throughout the enterprise. It allows an organization to connect multiple security domains, both internal and external, to the same server so all configurations, partner trust relationships and audit logs can be managed centrally. PingFederate v3 fully supports the Burton Group's recommended architecture for a standalone federation server, enabling efficient, platform-level scalability as deployment of federation increases. Pricing and Availability PingFederate v3 is now available and can be downloaded directly from Ping Identity by going to pingidentity.com. The first 100,000 transactions are free. Subscription-based, limited and unlimited use licenses are available. 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 software and intelligent services for simplified identity federation and secure Internet-scale identity. Ping's products focus exclusively on identity federation, 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 and ease of deployment. Ping is a leading provider of federation servers, federation testing services and open source federation toolkits (www.sourceid.org). Ping's customers include American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. , 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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