Ping Identity Demonstrates Identity-Enabled Web Services for Google Apps

Ping Identity® is teaming with Google™ to strengthen security and streamline administration for companies who are deploying Web applications and gadgets with Google Apps™ developer tools.

Ping Identity is developing future PingFederate® capabilities that will centralize Internet identity security for system-to application, application-to-application or user-to-application access through OAuth-secured Google Apps developer tools. Ping Identity developers attended Google’s Campfire One event tonight to premiere these tools.

“Cloud computing is changing the requirements for addressing data security and user access,” said Ping Identity CTO Patrick Harding. “Google’s Secure Data Connector™ extends security beyond the firewall, allowing developers to build Web apps and gadgets that can more securely access on-premise data. The next step is centralizing the management of identity-enabled Web Services to know which systems, apps and users are accessing data through these apps and gadgets.”

“PingFederate is a great asset to our Google Apps customers looking to implement Single Sign-On, and we’re particularly happy about Ping supporting SSO across the Google Enterprise product suite,” said Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead. “We’re also excited to have them at Campfire One tonight, and to continue working together in the future.”

As the leading SSO provider for Google Enterprise, Ping Identity helps companies address compliance concerns for Google Enterprise deployments and is the only vendor to provide standards-based SSO support for Google Apps, Google Search Appliance and Google Security Compliance (Postini). Ping Identity and Google collaborate on an ongoing basis to design current and future SSO and provisioning solutions for common customers and prospects. The demonstrated integration via OAuth continues and expands this collaboration.

About the Ping Identity Campfire Demonstration

Ping Identity demonstrated a version of its PingFederate software extended to use the OAuth open source secure authentication standard to identity-enable REST-based Web Service requests. This allows an administrator to specify any number of domains that are authorized to submit requests. When a Web Service request comes in, PingFederate uses OAuth to determine whether or not the request came from an approved domain. The demonstration also showed how PingFederate could centralize all necessary OAuth key cryptography processing, eliminating the need to perform key cryptography at every application that accepts identity-enabled Web Service calls.

About Ping Identity Corporation

Ping Identity is the market leader in federated identity management, delivering secure Internet Single Sign-On (SSO) software and services to more than 300 enterprise customers, government agencies and service providers worldwide. Ping Identity provides secure access to Internet applications through a single login to give organizations easy and rapidly deployed on-premise or on-demand Internet SSO. Visit www.pingidentity.com for additional information.

Ping Identity, PingFederate, PingConnect, PingEnable, the Ping Identity logo, SignOn.com, Auto-Connect and Single Sign-On Summit are registered trademarks, trademarks or servicemarks of Ping Identity Corporation. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Google, Google Apps, Secure Data Connector, Google App Engine, Google Search Appliance are all trademarks of Google Inc.

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