PING IDENTITY DELIVERS PINGFEDERATE INTEGRATION KIT FOR MICROSOFT® OFFICE SHAREPOINT® SERVER 2007 AND SHAREPOINT PORTAL SERVER 2003

Provides SharePoint Server Users Secure Internet Single Sign-On Based on SAML and WS-Federation

Digital ID World, San Francisco CA – September 25, 2007 – Ping Identity Corporation today announced that the PingFederate Integration Kit for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is now available for download from www.pingidentity.com. When used with award-winning PingFederate, this new kit provides Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 users with secure Internet single sign-on that is based on the SAML and WS-Federation federated identity standards.

Microsoft’s SharePoint Products and Technologies act as the centerpiece for collaboration inside and outside growing numbers of organizations. Until now, these organizations have had limited options for offering external partners secure access to content on internal SharePoint Servers. PingFederate gives SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrators a new option: secure, standards-based single sign-on that not only works for SharePoint Products and Technologies, but also numerous other application and identity management environments. Furthermore, administrators can federate their SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 applications with any partner that is SAML or WS-Federation-enabled. “PingFederate enables companies to gain more out of their investment in SharePoint Products and Technologies. The combined solution increases the number of external users that can now have access to SharePoint content from the hosted enterprise.” Seth Patton, Director of SharePoint Products and Technologies at Microsoft.

“Secure SSO to Sharepoint Servers has been one of the most requested use case by our customers and prospects. This new product unlocks the true potential of SharePoint Products and Technologies outside the enterprise.” Andre Durand, CEO, Ping Identity.

Additional Product Information
The PingFederate SharePoint Integration Kit supports both SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Office SharePoint Server 2007, and does not require an upgrade to the Windows environment. The kit is the latest addition to a growing suite of PingFederate integration options for Microsoft technologies including NTLM, .Net, IIS, COM, IWA, CardSpace, and Active Directory.

NEW PING IDENTITY INITIATIVE BRINGS SECURE INTERNET SINGLE SIGN-ON TO SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE PROVIDERS

Program Targets Critical Security Requirement While Aligning with SaaS Business Models

DIGITAL ID WORLD, San Francisco, CA – Sept. 25, 2007 – Ping Identity® (www.pingidentity.com) today announced a new program that gives Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers the ability to offer secure, standards-based single sign-on (SSO) to their enterprise clients. Elements of the program include use of Ping Identity’s award-winning PingFederate® federated identity server, a unique “pay-as-you-go” pricing model that aligns with SaaS business models, joint marketing and joint support. Under the terms of this new program, SaaS providers will receive PingFederate servers and Integration Kits for development and production use. When they sell secure SSO to their clients, they share the resulting revenue with Ping Identity. Also, program members can optionally resell PingFederate to their clients who do not already have SAML or WS-Federation capabilities, or refer their clients directly to Ping Identity and subsequently earn a referral fee.

For SaaS providers, this new program offers several important benefits: incremental revenue at a low cost of sales, reduced integration and operations costs, and minimal to no upfront capital and engineering costs. SaaS providers joining the program will also be able to participate with Ping Identity in marketing, sales and support activities including joint Webinars, listing in Ping Identity’s SaaS vendor directory on its Web site, lead sharing, joint RFP responses, sales education and support training.

“Security and single sign-on have become critical issues for our clients,” said Njal Larson, Senior Vice-President of Product Strategy, Satuit Technologies. “Not only does the new Ping Identity SaaS program give us the ability to deliver this important functionality, but also the structure fits perfectly with our business model.”

“Enterprises are actively seeking secure Internet SSO with their SaaS providers,” said Andre Durand, CEO Ping Identity. “This program gives these providers the ability to meet this increasingly-important requirement through the use of the industry’s leading Internet SSO product.” Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) have long recognized the benefits that SSO provides inside their enterprises in terms of increased security, reduced administrative costs and improved user experience. Now, as more and more enterprises are making a strategic shift from premises-based to hosted applications, many are requiring SSO support in SaaS Requests for Proposals. While proprietary SSO can and does work effectively inside the enterprise, this approach does not scale well in a world where enterprises have multiple SaaS providers, and SaaS providers have multiple enterprise clients.

Standards-based federated identity was created to support exactly these types of company-to-company secure interoperability scenarios. Since federated identity is based on industry standard protocols such as SAML and WS-Federation, a given enterprise or SaaS provider can support any number of federation partner connections with a single piece of infrastructure software, a federated identity server.

About PingFederate
Award-winning PingFederate is a standalone federated identity server with multi-protocol capabilities for SAML 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and WS-Federation single sign-on. PingFederate can be downloaded directly from Ping Identity at Ping Identity Announces SaaS Initiative www.pingidentity.com. PingFederate is certified Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 interoperable and GSA E-Authentication compliant.

Digital ID World 2007. Booth #507

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ping Identity, a market leader in secure Internet single sign-on, and Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX), a leader in trusted computing applications and services, today announced that they are demonstrating how their respective, standards-based products can be integrated to provide strong multifactor authentication of individual identity and then federate that identity from the desktop to any standards-based Web application. The combined solution can allow enterprise customers to seamlessly achieve stronger user authentication security and single sign-on access to data and services inside and outside the enterprise network.

Ping Identity’s PingFederate® is a federated identity server for enabling secure Internet single sign-on to online services for employees, customers and business partners; it provides bundled adaptors for streamlined integration with identity management systems, packaged enterprise applications, home-grown web applications and popular SaaS services. Installed in over 100 Fortune 500 companies, service providers and government agencies, PingFederate provides secure Internet single sign-on via support for the SAML and WS-Federation standards.

Visitors to Wave’s booth will see how Wave’s EMBASSY® Trust Suite software, designed to manage the security features of an open standards hardware security chip called a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) can strengthen single sign-on, including multifactor authentication support, and be used in conjunction with PingFederate.

TPMs, now shipping on most enterprise-class PCs today, serve as a hardware “storage vault” protecting identity types. When a user authenticates to his or her PC, the digital identity certificate, protected by the TPM, is used to provide strong authentication to the enterprise network using his or her Active Directory domain identity. This capability represents a significant step forward in replacing passwords and making standards-based multi-factor authentication easy, less expensive and more secure.

Combined, PingFederate and Wave’s EMBASSY Trust Suite can allow PKI-based authentication, protected by the TPMs, to be leveraged in single sign-on to both internal and external websites, data and services.

"Together, Wave Systems and Ping Identity unlock many the valuable of security features already built into many enterprise laptop and desktop computers,” according to Andre Durand, CEO, Ping Identity. “For the first time, an enterprise can enable secure PKI, smartcard or biometrically-based single sign-on directly from the desktop. The combined solution creates a seamlessly unbroken chain of security from the end-user all the way through to the Internet, while simultaneously delivering on the user convenience of single sign-on.”

“There are estimates that nearly 100 million PCs are in the marketplace with TPMs onboard, and the growth that installed base is accelerating. That’s five years of shipping platforms based on the open standards of the Trusted Computing Group. Enterprises can now more easily realize the enhanced security benefits that this security hardware was designed to provide,” said Steven Sprague, CEO and President, Wave Systems. “Ping Identity and Wave are demonstrating the power that comes from combining the security of Trusted Computing standards with the flexibility and connectivity provided by Identity Federation.”

Where, When:

Wave Systems and Ping Identity will be demonstrating this solution in the Wave booth (#507) at the Digital ID World Conference, at the Hilton San Francisco, September 24th-26th, 2007. More information on Ping Identity’s products is available at www.pingidentity.com and for Wave Systems’ EMBASSY products, visit www.wave.com.