Tuesday, 8 May 2007
PingLogin 2.1 Released
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PingLogin 2.1 is available for immediate download.
PingLogin is a next-generation user authentication and single sign-on framework for consumer-facing online services and web applications. Designed to enable extensible and flexible deployments, PingLogin reduces the maintenance and development costs associated with existing access management implementations. Additionally, PingLogin’s integration interface enables agility to meet changing business and security demands.
Built on standards with a focus on flexibility and extensibility, PingLogin provides a foundation for those companies looking to re-factor their approach to consumer authentication. By centralizing authentication and making additional forms of consumer authentication a plug-and-play exercise, PingLogin can reduce integration and on-going maintenance costs considerably. At the same time, PingLogin’s robust integration interfaces enable greater agility to meet the ever changing business and security requirements brought on as a result of phishing, pharming and identity fraud.
PingLogin was not only designed specifically for consumer-scale performance, but also for the evolving requirements surrounding identity verification as new threats and technologies emerge.
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.
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