Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Next Ping Bash - Burton Catalyst After Hours
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Announcing PingEnable. All the good stuff which isn't technology
We often hear analysts talking about the fact that 'technology isn't the hard part of federating.' To a certain extent, we agree. Today we announced the formalization of a set of services designed to accelerate Enterprise federation called PingEnable. Read about it here.
Monday, 12 May 2008
7 Reason’s SaaS Providers Need to Standardize on Identity Federation
1. Save money by not implementing proprietary single sign-on mechanisms with every customer
2. Save money by reducing password resets
3. Increase revenue by eliminating customer account (password) sharing
4. Reduce time to production by eliminating the need for manual user account creation through automated user provisioning
5. Increase compliance by allowing enterprise customers to manage and maintain their own security policies
6. Reduce complexity by leverage a customers existing strong authentication capabilities
7. Reduce risk by shrinking the phishing attack surface
6 Reasons to Partner with Ping Identity
1. Ping Identity is the first to offer a premier program that allows SaaS providers to turn SSO from a cost driven initiative to a revenue generating opportunity.
2. Ping is the #1 provider of standards-based Internet single sign-on software
3. PingFederate, Ping’s flagship product, is a lightweight, stand-alone software-only solution
4. Ping is the only provider focused on the needs of SaaS vendors
5. Ping is the only provider offering ‘Auto-Connect’ for fast connections with customers
6. Ping is the only company to provide proven methodology for enabling quick identity integration and SSO with SaaS providers.
Learn more about what PingFederate can do for SaaS vendors from our archived webinar: Can Federation Solve the SaaS Phishing Problem?
Federate SiteMinder in 30 Days or Less
We recently launched a marketing campaign to talk about our recently released SiteMinder integration kit, which effectively extends SiteMinder Single Sign-On to the Internet using Ping's award winning PingFederate.
We went back and forth on what image to use for the mailer. This one had the most personality. We like personality.
NEW! SignOn.com Support for Google Apps
Ashish Jain and David Waite, our labs and SignOn.com guru's, recently released a new version of SignOn.com. Ashish does a great job explaining a recent release of SignOn.com on his blog, so I'll blatantly copy some of that material here for distribution.
Add Google Apps services to your SignOn.com account (e.g. you can have an email address like joe@signon.com that’s hosted by Google Apps).
Single Sign-On to Google Apps via your SignOn.com credentials (username/password or Information cards). Your username for Google Apps will be the same as your user name for SignOn.com. For example, if your SignOn.com username is joe, your email address will be joe@signon.com.
SignOn.com has had support for OpenID and Information Cards for some time. With the latest release however, we've added support for SAML by leveraging our own federation server, PingFederate 5.x.
To demonstrate what the addition of PingFederate provides with the addition of SAML, we've integrated SignOn.com with Google Apps (which has been SAML enabled for some time now). Google Apps is a service from Google that features applications for mail, calendaring, docs etc.
New Capabilities
INSTRUCTIONS: Adding SSO for Google Apps for your account
1. Login to SignOn.com (register if you don’t have an existing account).
For future access, you can either go to your SignOn.com home page and click on Google Apps links (IdP initiated SSO).
Or you can access Google App services directly by going to the following URLs, and it will redirect you to SignOn.com for authentication (SP initiated SSO).
2. Go to My Profile tab and make sure that you have your firstname and lastname populated (we need this information to create your Google Apps Account).
3. Go to My Accounts Tab.
4. Scroll down and you will see ‘Partner Accounts’. Click Add. This will enable your account with Google Apps.
5. Go to the home page again. And you should see another link e.g.
6. For the first time access, you will have to go through Google CAPTCHA to complete the registration process with Google Apps.
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
PingFederate Chinese
Gamatek (a reseller) in Hong Kong converted our PingFederate 5.0 datasheet to Chinese. Cool.
Monday, 5 May 2008
SSO Summit Speakers
We've finalized a great list of speakers and case-studies for this years SSO Summit, taking place in Keystone CO on July and 25th. Case Studies on everything from ESSO to Federated SSO will be presented by the likes of General Motors, Chrysler, Deloitte, Rearden Commerce, Prudential Insurance, Wyeth and 3M. In 30 minutes, each case study will cover:
o Project scope and time line
o What defined success
o What specific problems were being addressed (business & technical)
o Who owned the project, who was involved in the decision making process
o How high up in the organization was this project being actively managed by?
o Hurdles (technical and business) that had to be overcome
o What technology was used
o What worked
o What didn’t work
o What would you have done differently if you had the opportunity
o Lessons learned
o Suggestions for others
In addition to the above, you'll learn from the experience of others and industry experts as we openly discuss the following SSO topics:
1. Single Sign-On, Reduced Sign-On, Simplified Sign-On, Zero Sign-On – which is right for you?
2. Describing the business value of your SSO initiatives to the CIO
3. What’s next for Web Access Management SSO?
4. Kerberos everywhere – true statement?
5. What’s the ‘holy grail’ for Enterprise SSO – we‘ve been trying for 20 years!
6. SSO for Web services?
7. Single Sign-On’s role in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
8. PKI or Federation -- which is right for me?
9. SSO for non-browser clients – PDA’s, RIA’s, Phones
10. Leveraging NAC Authentication for Single Sign-On to Apps
11. Where do OpenID and InfoCards fit?
12. SSO implies a central authentication authority – does this need strong auth, what are the risks, what controls do I need
13. How do I get SSO when my enterprise has no perimeter?
14. SSO for partners and customers – why bother?
15. Enterprise 2.0 and the Web 2.0 mash-up – how do we do SSO for these?
16. Strengthening Authentication for Single Sign-On
17. How to leverage Virtual Directories
18. What is Oauth and where does it fit into your web services SSO initiatives.
19. The role of claims and the security token server in web services SSO
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Identity's Role in Cloud Computing
Chris Ceppi of Ping forwarded me a recent CNBC interview with Eric Schmidt of Google. If you wish to read the entire interview, it's here. When asked about corporate customers of Google's cloud services, like email etc., Eric described the need for "...greater security, for all the obvious reasons. And they also need better integration with all of the other services that their companies have."
Sounds like a great time to be in the business of identity federation, as I firmly believe the users identity, the portability of that identity, and the portability of user-context to be at the heart of securing a distributed world.
Customer Service. Get it while it's hot!
We've been working with a large bank who purchased one of our smallest PingFederate offerings (a single connection). We like these customers, because we have the opportunity to prove ourselves -- and we do have something to prove! Until recently, this customer considered success with Internet SSO to be a 9 month ordeal -- for a single connection no less!
We had a call with them the other day to better understand their strategic vision around federated SSO. They stated they want to expand their use of PingFederate from a “point solution” to an enterprise solution and have 2008 budget to do so (we love to hear that!).
Anyways, when asked if there was anything lacking in our current support of their efforts, they responded, “Absolutely nothing. Your service and support (kudo's Ryan and Paul) is amazing. We don’t know how you guys do it, but keep doing what you’re doing.”
They weren't used to such hands-on and proactive support -- and it's left them baffled. We continue to invest in our support and services team for just this reason. Support isn't the back of the train, any more than quality. It's often times the front of the train.
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