Ping Identity Expands IDaaS Platform for the Digital Enterprise

New Orleans, LA — June 6, 2016

Ping Identity®, the leader in Identity Defined Security, today unveiled enhancements to its Identity as a Service (IDaaS) platform that enables enterprises to provide a more secure authentication experience that is simple for IT to manage and embraced by end users. The company will demonstrate the new Ping Identity Platform IDaaS features at the Cloud Identity Summit this week.

Enterprises are activating mobile, cloud-forward strategies at an accelerated pace across their organizations to meet growing demands for a single experience that’s easy, personal and secure. To do this effectively, they need identity solutions that provide trusted and seamless access for employees, partners and customers. Enterprises need to simultaneously balance access to legacy on-premise applications with heavy and rapid mobile and cloud app adoption. Today’s announcement helps enterprises continue on this journey toward digital transformation with new features that are designed to meet their unique identity requirements.

“In today’s mobile-centric world, user experience is everything, and identity can make or break it. Mobility, combined with unrelenting phishing attacks, have caused multi-factor authentication to evolve from a ‘nice-to-have’ to a ‘must have,’ but it can’t come at the cost of the seamless experience people have come to expect,” said Andre Durand, CEO and founder, Ping Identity. “Today’s announcement ensures that enterprises can create trusted mobile experiences with very little friction, while also supporting IT’s need to move quickly without compromising quality.”

The new offering delivers many new features and benefits, including:

• A consistent, familiar user experience on mobile devices. Updates to mobile MFA offer co-branding capabilities for organizations to use their own branding and logos to provide a familiar and consistent authentication experience for employees, partners and customers. Now enterprises can brand the entire MFA experience as their own.
• Secure privileged access and enhanced support for Windows Remote Desktop. To address the high demand for securing privileged access, support for MFA for Windows RDP is now available through PingID. This new feature expands upon the solution’s existing support for cloud-based applications, on-premises applications, VPNs and Secure Shell.
• Refreshed PingOne user interface. An upgraded user interface in the PingOne cloud offers customers a simplified, seamless experience. New features allow enterprises to create the best experience for their users and flexibility they need to scale quickly.

“Cisco IT have a wide variety of applications and users all over the globe. We were looking for a standards based, easy to use and a secure yet easy to use platform to meet our highly complex business needs. We are on the road to provide this secure, seamless and easy-to-use experience by leveraging Ping’s unified platform approach which makes the implementation an easy-to-consume service for enterprise IT teams of the world like Cisco,” said Ranjan Jain, Security Architect, Cisco Systems Inc.

New Rules: IDaaS for the Enterprise

In satisfying the needs of global enterprises, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 100, four of the top six banks, eight of the ten largest biopharmaceutical companies, and three of the largest healthcare plans, Ping Identity delivers what these large organizations require. The company has leveraged its experience working with the most sophisticated enterprises to deliver an authoritative list of principles and best practices that every enterprise needs to know:

1. 1. Say ‘Yes’ to Any Application
       Support all apps wherever they are: SaaS, mobile, on-premises and IaaS.
2. 2. Handle Millions of Identities
       Scale to support millions of employee, partner and customer identities.
3. 3. Plan for the Future
       Use SAML, OIDC, OAuth and SCIM standards to ensure interoperability today and tomorrow.
4. 4. Use the Best Directory for the Job
       Store identities in the cloud or bridge to existing stores like AD, Azure AD and SQL.
5. 5. Stay Compliant and Flexible
       Extend IDaaS to IaaS and on-premise deployments to meet configuration requirements.
6. 6. Modernize Your Investments
       Augment and integrate your existing infrastructure, including legacy WAM systems.
7. 7. Integrate with Speed
       Use out-of-the-box integration kits for custom and industry-specific apps.
8. 8. Improve Security with Adaptive MFA
       Incorporate access policies and controls specific to user location, behavior, device, etc.

About Ping Identity | The Identity Defined Security Company

Ping Identity is the leader in Identity Defined Security for the borderless enterprise, allowing the right people to access the right things, securely and seamlessly. More than half of the Fortune 100, including Boeing, Cisco, Disney, GE, Kraft Foods, TIAA and Walgreens, trust us to accelerate their move to the cloud, deliver a rich customer experience and quickly onboard partners as part of their digital transformation. Protecting more than 1.3 billion identities around the globe, Ping Identity allows employees, customers and partners the freedom to access the Cloud and the on-premise applications they need with an enterprise IDaaS solution that includes multi-factor authentication, single sign-on and access security. Visit www.pingidentity.com.

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