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Friday, 19 December 2008

3%

In our Ping board meeting yesterday, we reviewed the accomplishments of various departments over the last year. Engineering reported a staggering statistic. Out of 100 releases in the past 3 years, they've only slipped 3 times. The longest slip was 1 week. Next stop, 2%.

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Federating the Windows Login via SAML

We just released a new version (2.2) of our PingFederate IWA Integration Kit. This integration kit allows people to SAML enable their Active Directory authentication. Giving users Internet single sign-on to partners and SaaS providers from their Windows authentication. The new integration kit is available for immediate download from the Ping Identity website.

New features:

  • Added ability to specify Kerberos only for IWA authentication
  • Allowed the Domain Controller to be optionally specified rather than resolved through DNS
  • Added support for JDK 1.6
  • Bug Fix – Adapter supports NTLM in a PingFederate cluster fronted with a load balancer using keep-alive connections
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    Saturday, 6 December 2008

    SAML for IIS Applications

    The PingFederate integration kit for IIS v2.0 is now available for download from the Ping Identity Website. This upgraded integration kit allows you to enable SAML & WS-Federation single signon to and from IIS applications via PingFederate, the most widely deployed federation server on the planet!

    New Features

  • Ported the IIS Agent to use the OpenToken Adapter and the OpenToken .NET library
  • Supports the POST Transport Method from the OpenToken Adapter
  • Added URL filtering for protected resources
  • Added support to allow IIS Web applications to download files
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    Tuesday, 2 December 2008

    Top 10 things IT does in tough times**

    1. Look at open-source alternatives.

    2. Figure out how to consolidate vendors at a lower unit cost.

    3. Replace manual effort with automation that can be achieved with a 3m payback.

    4. Invest in new technologies that will lower cost by an order of magnitude.

    5. Break down myths that an application can't be hosted externally.

    6. Challenge costly, incumbent technologies with new upstarts.

    7. Look for short-term projects that can delivery value quickly.

    8. Attempt to put new products on existing IT infrastructure.

    9. Not start any long-term, strategic projects.

    10. Hit up your local sales rep for freebies (e.g. tickets to the Lakers)

    ** Contributed from one of Ping's advisors

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    SAML Single Sign-On for Salesforce

    Join us and Sr. Product Manager of Security Peter Dapkus of Salesforce as we detail what's required to automate user provisioning, de-provisioning and single sign-on to Salesforce. See how Ping can help you deploy a solution in days that is either on-demand or on-premise.
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    Monday, 1 December 2008

    SAML Integration Kit for Apache Apps

    The Apache Integration Kit v2.0 for Apache 2.0 is now available for download from the Ping Identity Website.

    New Features:

    • Simplified Apache module by removing deprecated functionality not specific to PingFederate
    • Added ability to expose attributes as HTTP request headers
    • SAML subject is logged in the Apache access_log
    • Updated the OpenToken library to support password obfuscation
    • Updated the OpenToken library to support the POST Transport Method
    • (Bug fix) Cancel URLs no longer need to be contained in a protected resource
    • (Bug fix) Cookie domain is no longer validated against the agent-config file if query or POST is used as the initial transport method.

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    1 in 10,000

    While you would never know it by the below picture, there were around 10,000 people at the Salesforce keynote a few weeks back. How they ended up with my picture is beyond me. It's a crazy coincidence given we're sponsoring some of the city tours this email was sent to promote. Too bad the picture didn't extend a bit lower so you could see the Ping logo!

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