Why Legacy Access Controls Are Failing Your Extended Workforce

Your extended workforce, including corporate employees, frontline workers, contractors, suppliers, distributors, and other third-party partners—relies on seamless access to critical systems and shared business applications. Many of these users operate across shared devices, distributed environments, and access journeys where trust cannot be assumed. That complexity has made access a primary target for attackers.

In frontline environments, where workforce and third-party access often intersect, shared kiosks and devices, shift-based work, and vendor-supported systems create additional blind spots that traditional access controls were never designed to address.

Attackers aren’t breaking in manually anymore. Mainstream AI tools now enable large-scale credential attacks, phishing campaigns, and MFA fatigue attacks that mimic legitimate users at machine speed. As organizations struggle to manage these challenges, they often increase the volume of MFA prompts. This provides attackers with more surfaces to exploit and allows them to leverage inconsistencies across access flows to find the weakest link.

The result: more friction, inconsistent protection, and increased risk. When controls fail, account takeover becomes the entry point for operational disruption, financial loss, and reputational damage.

The Solution: Verified Access

Deliver secure access without compromising productivity through intelligent, risk-based authentication and orchestration across your extended workforce—corporate employees, frontline workers, contractors, and third-party users. Ping orchestrates risk evaluation and flexible authentication, including phishing-resistant MFA, privacy-preserving biometric authentication, and/or verifiable credentials, into one adaptive access layer that helps you verify trust continuously.

Evaluate Risk in Real Time

Ping collects and analyzes risk signals such as device posture, behavioral anomalies, IP reputation, bots, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM), environmental context, and third-party signals to build a real-time risk profile for every access attempt. Predictive risk models identify AI-driven brute-force activity, session hijacking, and abnormal login behavior before access is granted.

Apply Authentication Based on Risk

AI-driven risk engines determine when to step up and when to allow seamless access. Based on risk, organizations can apply phishing-resistant MFA, privacy-preserving biometric authentication, or verifiable credentials, protecting high-risk sessions without slowing trusted users down.

Enforce Consistent Protection Everywhere

Access policies are orchestrated across identity providers, organizational boundaries, and operational environments, ensuring consistent, risk-aware decisions for corporate employees, frontline workers, contractors, and third-party users.

Adapt Protection to Real-World Context

Adaptive controls extend beyond the standard login prompt, responding to changes in device, location, behavior, and operational context. Organizations can apply stronger verification where risk rises without slowing trusted users across corporate workforce, frontline, and third-party environments.

Strengthen Access Trust

Strengthen security across every access journey while building toward a future-ready architecture.

One Model for Adaptive Access

Deliver adaptive protection across your extended workforce—using real-time risk signals and flexible authentication to balance security and user experience.

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Every authentication event. Every identity. One adaptive pattern.

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Protect Every Identity. Reduce Risk. Empower Your Workforce and Partner Ecosystem.

Verified Access delivers measurable value by stopping AI-powered attacks, reducing operational burden, and ensuring every identity across your extended workforce is protected without compromise.

At Ping Identity, we make it possible to trust every digital moment across customers, employees, partners, and non-human identities. Whether you’re securing millions of users, fighting fraud, simplifying third-party access, or going passwordless, establishing trust shouldn’t slow you down. Our enterprise-grade identity platform is built for scale, speed, and flexibility and works seamlessly with your existing cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. We help you confidently embrace AI and automation with Runtime Identity, so you can continuously verify the identity, context, and intent of every AI agent and control their actions in real time. With Ping, all digital experiences start with trust. Learn more at pingidentity.com.