Ping Identity White Papers

SAML 101

Today's enterprise employees use an ever-increasing number of applications, both enterprise hosted and in the Cloud, to do their jobs. What's more, they will access those applications from a variety of devices (desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, etc) and application models (both browser and native). Expecting those employees to remember strong and unique passwords for each and every application simply does not scale. Providing employees seamless, secure "single sign-on" access to their applications has become business critical.

Identity federation solves these challenges by providing a secure, private mechanism for organizations to share user identities, removing the need to maintain separate user profiles for every enterprise application.

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Five Ways that Identity Federation is Improving Online Security for Government Agencies

Cloud computing, social networking and mobile devices are improving efficiency and collaboration in the public sector. But anytime, anywhere accessibility also increases the need to simplify, control and secure identities. In addition, the public sector must maintain a strong focus on reducing costs and delivering a positive user experience. This paper provides a brief overview of federated identity and reviews its roles within the identity management strategies of civilian agencies, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the intelligence community.

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Why Centralized Cloud Identity Management is Crucial for the Enterprise

Now that employees are leaving the relative safety of the firewall to use online SaaS applications, enterprises need to adjust the way they manage employee identities. This White Paper from Ping Identity addresses why we need to centralize employees' IDs across applications.

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6 Enterprise Solutions for Successful Identity Management

As application access evolves, so should your inbound and outbound identity management strategy. Our simple, proven and secure solutions address six use cases for cloud application access, cloud user provisioning, native mobile apps, secure API access and social identity integration.

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Extending Security to the Cloud with Adaptive Federation

As IT administrators and security architects face a morass of on-premise and hosted applications, user communities, multiple devices and disparate identity sources, there is a demand for greater protection of both identities and business resources. This paper demonstrates how PingFederate's adaptive federation features support comprehensive and custom authentication policies to govern all identity federation needs for employees, partners, customers and consumers.

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