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PING IDENTITY DELIVERS PINGFEDERATE INTEGRATION KIT FOR MICROSOFT® OFFICE SHAREPOINT® SERVER 2007 AND SHAREPOINT PORTAL SERVER 2003

Provides SharePoint Server Users Secure Internet Single Sign-On Based on SAML and WS-Federation

Digital ID World, San Francisco CA – September 25, 2007 – Ping Identity Corporation today announced that the PingFederate Integration Kit for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is now available for download from www.pingidentity.com. When used with award-winning PingFederate, this new kit provides Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 users with secure Internet single sign-on that is based on the SAML and WS-Federation federated identity standards.


Microsoft’s SharePoint Products and Technologies act as the centerpiece for collaboration inside and outside growing numbers of organizations. Until now, these organizations have had limited options for offering external partners secure access to content on internal SharePoint Servers. PingFederate gives SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrators a new option: secure, standards-based single sign-on that not only works for SharePoint Products and Technologies, but also numerous other application and identity management environments. Furthermore, administrators can federate their SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 applications with any partner that is SAML or WS-Federation-enabled. “PingFederate enables companies to gain more out of their investment in SharePoint Products and Technologies. The combined solution increases the number of external users that can now have access to SharePoint content from the hosted enterprise.” Seth Patton, Director of SharePoint Products and Technologies at Microsoft.


“Secure SSO to Sharepoint Servers has been one of the most requested use case by our customers and prospects. This new product unlocks the true potential of SharePoint Products and Technologies outside the enterprise.” Andre Durand, CEO, Ping Identity.

Additional Product Information
The PingFederate SharePoint Integration Kit supports both SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Office SharePoint Server 2007, and does not require an upgrade to the Windows environment. The kit is the latest addition to a growing suite of PingFederate integration options for Microsoft technologies including NTLM, .Net, IIS, COM, IWA, CardSpace, and Active Directory.

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Strong Desktop Authentication & Federated SSO for 100M Computers
Ping Identity and Wave Systems Collaborate to Provide Strong Authentication for Federated Single Sign-On

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.

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Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Ping Identity's Ashish Jain and Patrick Harding have been working with Sid Sidner, a master engineer at ACI Worldwide and architect for ACI’s virtual SET wallet and 3D-Secure products. Together, we've been bridging the worlds of eCommerce, payment systems and the identity metasystem. In two weeks, the companies will demonstrate the use of managed Information Cards for secure online purchasing. You'll be able to see the demo at Ping Identity's Federation Users Group at Digital ID World or at a dedicated presentation by Sid on Tuesday at 2:05pm. Sid's session on Tuesday will cover:

- Who is ACI?
- Why this presentation: a new use case for e-commerce
- InfoCard 101
- Payments 101
- e-commerce security: 3D-Secure 101
- Why InfoCards are (almost) perfect for this use case
- The ACI-Ping Identity demo
- Why we are such excellent partners
- The two user experiences: get a card, use a card
- The components
- What does it take to make it happen
- Adoption of InfoCards
- Small change to the identity selectors
- Adoption by the payment providers (PCI, PayPal, etc.)
- Adoption by merchants
- Adoption by consumers

Backgrounder

The identity metasystem concept embodied in Information Cards has applications beyond pure authentication. For example, Information Cards could be excellent for supplying payment data to an e-commerce merchant during a purchase.

It would go like this: A payment provider such as a bank or PayPal issues a consumer a payment Information Card. Then the consumer can use it at participating merchants. They simply click a button which activates the identity selector software on their PC, phone, or set-top box - an identity selector like Microsoft's CardSpace or any of the other ones being developed. The consumer selects the payment Information Card of their choice, enters their PIN, and the identity selector gets the payment information from the payment provider and returns it to the merchant.

The consumer will like it because they don't have to type in the card number, expiration date, CVV, and billing address. The merchant will like it because the clickpath to order submission is shorter; they will should get better merchant fees and fraud risk; and they don't have to store sensitive cardholder information in their databases. The payment provider will like it because they can dramatically lower their e-commerce fraud.

An exciting aspect of this is that the 3D-Secure protocol used by Visa, MasterCard, and JCB, as well as the PayPal protocol could easily be adapted to support Information Cards.

ACI Worldwide is the world leader in retail payments - over half the plastic card transactions in the world (55 billion last year) go through ACI's software at banks, merchants and networks in over 85 countries. Ping Identity is one of the leaders in the development and implementation of Information Cards. The two companies have put their heads together to develop a demo of shopping with a payment Information Card. They will be showing this during Digital ID World 2007 at Ping Identity's booth, #404.


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