eNews                                               April 2007

Dear Colleague,

Federated Identity Management has entered a new phase of market adoption in recent months. In response, Ping Identity has released PingFederate 4.3 with new virtualization features to support software on demand vendors as well as three new integration kits for Citrix, SAP NetWeaver and WebSphere. We continue to make PingFederate the easiest Federated Identity Management solution to deploy and scale and we're paying special attention to simplifying how our customers add partners to their identity federations.

With many of the technical hurdles now addressed, many of you have requested assistance in educating your partners on the benefits of Federated Identity Management. We've responded with a bi-weekly Webinar series, new white papers to distribute to your partners and an entire host of services that allow you to practically outsource partner on-boarding to Ping Identity.

Andre Durand
CEO, Ping Identity
New Integration Kits Now Available
New PingFederate integration kits are available for Citrix, SAP NetWeaver and WebSphere:
  • Citrix Integration Kit enables organizations to provide external single sign-on (SSO) to applications that have been virtualized with Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 for employees, customers and business partners.
  • Integration Kit for SAP NetWeaver allows an enterprise to enable its NetWeaver users to Web SSO to non-NetWeaver applications within the organization as well as to external partner applications. In addition, a Service Provider enterprise can provide SSO access to NetWeaver applications.
  • WebSphere Integration Kit enables organizations to provide Web SSO to applications running on a WebSphere application server. Since the integration is at the server level, it is not necessary to install a Java Integration Kit for each application individually, providing ease of deployment and scalability to Service Providers.
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Attention Software on Demand Vendors and BPO Providers
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PingLogin 2.1 Released
PingLogin 2.1 is now available for immediate download. New capabilities include:
  • Additional Cookie Mode PingLogin now supports another cookie mode, in which the browser session state is stored within an encrypted cookie in the browser itself instead of in memory on a server or an agent, thereby providing near-linear scalability of both the agent and the server. Due to privacy and security concerns with this mode, PingLogin also provides automated generation of encryption keys, with distribution via an authenticated, encrypted channel in both standalone and clustered server configurations.
  • Multiple Domain Support A single PingLogin instance can support multiple domains for session management, which is especially beneficial to hosted environments, where a single application server hosts content for multiple customers across multiple domains.
  • Improved Plug-in Support The PingLogin administrative console dynamically generates configuration pages to manage server plug-ins. In addition, PingLogin allows an initial authenticator to pass identity information to subsequent authentication mechanisms, such as second-factor authenticators. PingLogin also supports packaging third-party plug-in configuration data for distribution with the server configuration at deployment time.
Also available for download are the PingLogin Data Sheet and Technical Overview.

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Ping Identity to Co-chair OASIS SSTC
Brian Campbell, Technical Lead for PingFederate, has been elected to serve as co-chair of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee. As co-chair, Brian will help lead the future development of open standards such as SAML. This election demonstrates not only the respect with which Brian's peers regard him, but shows Ping Identity's commitment to the continued success of SAML. We congratulate Brian on this accomplishment and wish him all the best in representing Ping Identity in our industry.

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Seminar in Washington, DC
The seminar, "How to Extend Communication and Collaboration Across Agency Boundaries with Identity Management", focuses on the challenges Federal Agencies face while implementing Federated Identity Management solutions. Hear how others have cracked the code on Federated Identity Management using standards. Engage with invitees such as U.S. Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Office of the Director of National of Intelligence, Booz Allen Hamilton and others.

This seminar takes place Thursday, May 3rd, 8:00 - 10:30 AM, in the First Amendment Lounge at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. A complimentary continental breakfast will be provided by Ping Identity. Please register by Friday, April 27th by clicking here. Space is limited.

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Webinars Exceeding Expectations
Our ongoing Webinar series, designed to explore key concepts and realities of federated identity management, continues to exceed registration and attendance expectations!

You, your boss, your team and your partners can register for these events via the links below:

5/10/2007 Federated Identity Management: An Overview of Single Sign-On Standards Register
5/24/2007 Federated Identity Management: How to Increase Partner Adoption Register

If you cannot make the live event, the recording can be viewed from our Web site. Past Webinars are available by registering using the links below:

3/15/2007 Federated Identity Management: What Is It and Why Should I Care? Register
3/29/2007 Reduce Account Sharing with Federated Single Sign-On Register
4/12/2007 Federated Identity Management: A Comparison of Four Approaches Register
4/26/2007 Revolutionizing Consumer Authentication Management Register

We will continue to add new Webinars to our schedule. If you have any suggestions for future topics, please send them to webinars@pingidentity.com. Thanks!

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