Strong Desktop Authentication & Federated SSO for 100M Computers

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.