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Ping Identity CTO Shares Cloud Identity Security Best Practices at Department of Homeland Security Symposium
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ping Identity CTO Patrick Harding today told a group of Department of Homeland Security personnel and support contractors that new demands for cloud identity access management must be addressed. Ping Identity was one of a select group of vendors invited to share insights and best practices based on real customer experiences at the DHS Identity, Credential and Access Management Symposium.
The current system of single, armored, expensive and fully controlled federations is about to slam into the world of cloud federation and social networking," Harding said. “It is simple. The US Government will want to consume much of the data that citizens and commercial entities are putting out there. Those entities will frequently not be willing to jump through the hoops currently in place for Government workers and partners.”
While Harding acknowledged it will take some time to find a balance, he went on to say that Ping Identity believes that it is necessary for the US Government to not only continue with their ultra-secure profiles, but to also begin to create federation plans that have the flexibility to interface into this new world.
“Through our work with DHS, DISA, RISS and others governmental entities it is resoundingly clear that it is no longer good enough to authenticate the user and then forget about him,” Harding said. “What’s needed is a wholistic model, where confidence in a user can constantly be called into question through a continuing feedback loop of activity coming from services across the Internet. The goal is to move from one single fortified thread to a web of information that provides robust and redundant information that leads to a more secure context supporting the identity of the user.”
DHS has embarked on a course to ensure that it has adopted the very best practices for identity, credential, and access management (ICAM). With the support of Forrester Research, the Office of the CIO sponsored today’s ICAM Symposium to bring visibility to these best practices and facilitate their adoption across the enterprise.
More than 150 DHS Federal personnel and support contractors participated in the event.
Ping Identity and Harding are known for their work with US Identity, Credential and Access Management efforts. In July, Ping Identity participated in a special Burton Catalyst interoperability demo, showing a future concept in which its PingFederate Internet Single Sign-On (SSO) software will empower users to seamlessly access multiple Cloud-based applications or Websites regardless of the application’s ICAM levels of assurance (LOA) requirements or access protocols. Ping Identity is a member of the OpenID Foundation and supports the Open Government pilot project, and Harding a member of the Kantara eGovernment Work Group.
About Ping Identity Corporation
Ping Identity is the market leader in Internet Identity Security, delivering on-premise software and on-demand services for Internet Single Sign-On (SSO), Identity-Enabled Web Services and Internet User Account Management. More than 500 enterprises, government agencies, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors and online service providers worldwide rely on Ping Identity to streamline application access, reduce administrative costs, generate additional revenue and improve security. Visit www.pingidentity.com for additional information
