Product Description: PingFederate is the only standalone, best-of-breed federated identity server that implements the SAML 2.0 protocol to provide cross-domain single sign-on (SSO), single logout (SLO) and attribute exchange. PingFederate is unique in its focus on simplicity, and it is easier to install, integrate and scale than any other competing product. Deploying PingFederate will reduce complexity, cost, and time-to-production for companies and their partners. PingFederate's lightweight, standalone architecture delivers the benefits of standards-based web SSO without the cost and complexity of a complete identity management system. PingFederate's best-of-breed functionality provides sophisticated yet easy-to-use tools for setting up and managing federated interactions.
Key Features & Benefits:
Account Mapping uses the attributes in the SAML assertion to map users coming from the Identity Provider (IdP) into accounts at the Service Provider (SP):
Account Linking, where a user has accounts at both IdP and SP, protects the privacy of the user by utilizing a pseudonym (opaque identifier) in the SAML assertion to correlate SP accounts
Advanced Attribute Management
Manages all aspects of creating, communicating and using SAML attributes for account mapping and other functions
Partner Metadata Exchange
Partner configuration files facilitate the exchange of endpoint, certificate, attribute contract and company configuration parameters with partners for rapid, error-free setup
Cluster Configurations
One administrative console manages multiple runtime server nodes for performance, throughput and fault tolerance * Replicates configuration and long-running SAML state among all nodes for automated failover
Embedded Certificate Management System
Manages trusted CAs, SSL server certificates, SSL client keys / certificates, digital signature keys / certificates * Creates certificates,applies digital signatures at the binding and assertion levels * Import and export certificates to / from PKI systems and partners, verifies CA certificates
Log and Audit
SAML transaction log captures time stamps, SAML message, partner’s entity ID and binding
Highlights: Simply put - Ubiquitous Web Single Sign On capability that can be down loaded and used for free for the first 100,000 transactions.
End-Users: All Enterprises.
Ping Identity
1099 18th Street, Suite 2950
Denver , CO 80202 USA Tel: 1-303-468-2900
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