New Ping Identity Initiative Brings Secure Internet Single Sign-On to Software-as-a-Service Providers

September 25, 2007; 09:06 AM

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 www.pingidentity.com. PingFederate is certified Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 interoperable and GSA E-Authentication compliant.

About Ping Identity Corporation

Ping Identity is the leading provider of secure single sign-on solutions for Internet applications. Our singular focus, award-winning software and deployment expertise allow us to get our customers into production in record time. Over 100 large enterprises, service providers and government agencies rely on PingFederate®, the industry benchmark for standards-based federated Identity Management, to secure, protect and control their identity interactions with other organizations. SignOn.com brings these same capabilities to individuals. For more information, please visit www.pingidentity.com, dial toll-free 877.898.2905 or + 1 303.468.2882, or email [email protected].