Ping Identity Announces Next Gen Cloud Identity Security Capabilities

Dreamforce 2010 ' Ping Identity today announced its latest Internet Identity Security offerings designed to help enterprise cloud business applications with identity security. New capabilities in Ping Identity's portfolio of products but make it easier to unify cloud applications and processes for better business integration and a seamless user experience. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce 2010.

'The convergence of cloud computing, social networking and mobile applications is creating new requirements for federating and protecting user identities and applications,' said Patrick Harding, CTO, Ping Identity. 'Ping Identity is working diligently to make it even easier for cloud computing users to take full of advantage of their tools without compromising ease of access, or cloud security.'

Ping Identity supports business and consumer service providers, just as banks, online trading services and HR outsourcers, with a way to manage all of their Internet-based customer user accounts via the Salesforce portal. This provides an alternative to site-based corporate directories. The result is a cloud-based solution that includes the authentication mechanism and SSO necessary to securely manage customer access to applications in the cloud.

'We are seeing a growing number of customers in search of a more efficient way to manage the hundreds and thousands of client users accessing their Internet-based applications and services,' said WDCi CTO Walter Dewildt. 'With Ping Identity's Salesforce Cloud Identity Connector, Salesforce becomes the hosted identity provider, reducing license, infrastructure and ongoing maintenance costs of traditional identity stores, during leveraging the Salesforce platform's reliability and security.'

Series of PingFederate SaaS Connectors

Part of a series of PingFederate SaaS Connectors, the PingFederate Salesforce SaaS Connector extends PingFederate's capabilities to provide users with secure Internet single sign-on to Salesforce products and portals and automates the user account management process including account creation, modification and user account disablement. Quick Connection templates simplify and streamline configuration by pre-populating connection settings, user/account provisioning parameters and SSO endpoint parameters. The solution supports all Salesforce access methods including desktop and mobile browsers, remote users, Salesforce Connect for Microsoft Outlook and e-mailed report URLs.

Ping Identity's flagship offering, PingFederate, supports Internet Single Sign-On, Internet User Account Management and security token service to secure Web APIs. OAuth 2.0 support capabilities available in future releases of PingFederate will give developers an easy, secure way to access, share and modify data across Salesforce and custom or third-party applications using Salesforce access tokens.

Recognized leader in Internet Identity Security

A recognized leader in Internet Identity Security, Ping Identity delivers technical technology that secures business relationships across the Cloud. Ping Identity is the only vendor with full standards-based Single Sign-On and security token service support for Salesforce CRM, The Force.com platform and Chatter.

Ping Identity is the market leader in Internet Identity Security, delivering on-premise software and on-demand services for Internet Single Sign-On, Identity-Enabled Web Services and Internet User Account Management. More than 500 enterprises, government agencies, Software-as-a-Service vendors and online service providers worldwide rely on Ping Identity to streamline application access, reduce administrative costs, generate additional revenue and improve security. Visit www.pingidentity.com for additional information.