Last week Ping announced our participation in the RSA Secured Partner Program after having earlier released a SecureID strong authentication integration kit for PingFederate. At the Cloud Identity Summit 2010, we showcased a demo of PingFederate integration with VeriSign's VIP strong authentication service. This week we're working with Ping Advisor John Haggard, a recognized leader in strong authentication and security to work with customers who are looking to combine strong authentication with Single Sign-On.

“I have been an advocate of strong authentication and SSO for years. Neither are complete without the other.  “Last weeks announcement by Ping is the culmination of a long standing vision I've had to seamlessly couple strong authentication solutions with Cloud SSO.

Today I’m happy to be working with Ping to get these solutions into the field and deployed. I am working with Ping Identity to locate and closely monitor numerous enterprise customers who can now take advantage of this “first mile” solution for accurate user authentication with zero passwords present in the Cloud – ever. The significance of eliminating passwords while also relieving end users from excessive use (and possible misuse or non-use) of One Time Passwords cannot be overstated. My goal is to show this in action and that means getting the solution to the field as quickly as possible - it is a vision issue for me and a solution for you. If you are reading this with interest, please contact me directly at jhaggard@pingidentity.com.”
 

We just released a new SaaS Connector which enables Single Sign-On (SSO) and user account management for WebEx Meeting Center, the leading online communication and collaboration platform.   In addition to support for user account management, the WebEx Connector includes a Quick Connection template that simplifies and streamlines the SSO and provisioning configuration by pre-populating connection settings, SSO endpoint parameters and provisioning configuration.

• Quick Connection Template:  The WebEx quick connection template, in combination with SAML 2.0 metadata exchange, streamlines the configuration of a WebEx Meeting Center connection.   Standard configuration parameters are pre-populated within the connection, requiring entry of only site-specific details.
• User Account Management:  The WebEx SaaS Connector enables user account management, which automatically creates user accounts in WebEx Meeting Center and continually monitors your existing corporate directory for modifications and deletions.

WebEx is the newest in Ping Identity’s family of SaaS Connectors, which provide advanced SSO and user account management capabilities for leading SaaS vendors including Workday, Salesforce and Google.

For additional information check out our WebEx solution page or contact your sales representative.

Java Integration Kit 2.4.1

Ping recently released a new Java Integration Kit for PingFederate. It includes completely rewritten Java Sample Applications with a focus on providing a reference OpenToken application integration. Build-able source code is included with the distribution. The OpenToken Adapter and Agent remains the same as the 2.4 kit version.

IWA IdP Integration Kit Version 2.4

The PingFederate Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) IdP Integration Kit provides an Identity Provider (IdP) adapter for PingFederate. This kit allows a PingFederate IdP server to perform single sign-on (SSO) to Service Provider (SP) applications, based on IWA credentials.

In addition to various bug fixes, version 2.4 of the IWA IdP Integration kit includes:

•    Added full NTLM functionality and support for security policies exhibited by Windows clients and servers
•    Added support for Kerberos failover to NTLM authentication when the user is external to the domain

Both Integration Kits are available for immediate use from the Download Page.

The air was thin and the sun not quite up itself, but at 6am on the morning of the 2nd day at the Cloud Identity Summit, 22 adventurers showed up for a different sort of boot camp. The old fashion sorts with Navy Seal instructor, Jon Reilling. Everyone did great and to my knowledge, and no one hurled.

Going to Catalyst this year in San Diego? Join us on the roof at the Marriott at 9:01pm Wednesday July 28th. Bring your game. We'll bring ours.

A new PingFederate WebEx SaaS Connector is now available for download. The WebEx SaaS Connector is the newest edition to our growing family (e.g. Google Apps, Salesforce & Workday) of SaaS Connectors that enables advanced capabilities for enabling Single Sign-On and User Management to WebEx Meeting Center. 

We surveyed our customers recently to find out how we were doing in terms of speed, cost and overall customer satisfaction. I'd like to say we were blown away by the results, but the truth is, making it easy is why we exist. Check them out!

Our very own John Fontana summits into the clouds outside of Keystone in search of identity answers. Join John and everyone else from the identity and cloud security space who are making Cloud Identity a reality at the Cloud Identity Summit in July.