Ping Identity Public Sector Products

What is MFA?
MFA solutions provide assurance that users are authentic by requiring them to verify their identity with at least two pieces of evidence, each from a different category. These categories include something they know, something they have, and something they are.

Prevent Data Breaches
Weak or default passwords, along with those stolen through phishing and other attacks, continue to enable successful fraud and data breaches. Implementing MFA to verify the identities of your employees, partners, and customers helps prevent attackers.

Passwordless Authentication
You can choose to use stronger authentication methods, such as mobile push authentication, QR codes, and FIDO-compliant authenticators, instead of traditional credentials, to enable passwordless login.

Happier Users
Adaptive MFA solutions use frictionless, contextual, and behavioral data—such as geolocation, IP address, and time since the last authentication—to assess risk. Depending on the risk level, you can implement additional authentication factors to ensure a higher level of confidence in a user's identity when necessary.

Check First Factor
The user begins by requesting a resource and must provide their initial authentication factor, typically a password (though it isn't always required). Ping's authentication and SSO features allow for the use of stronger and more convenient methods, such as biometrics, as the first factor.

Consider Risk and Context
Implementing MFA universally without considering the context and risk of each situation can create unnecessary friction. In contrast, Ping's MFA policies evaluate the context to determine whether a second factor is needed.

Approve or Step Up Authentication
Depending on the context and risk associated with the access request and resource, Ping’s MFA service either instantly approves low-risk access requests or prompts the user for a second factor. This occurs before sending the higher-risk access approval to the authentication authority.

What is SSO?
Single sign-on (SSO) allows a user to sign on with one set of credentials and gain access to multiple applications and services. SSO increases security and provides a better user experience for customers, employees and partners by reducing the number of required accounts/passwords for all the apps and services they need.

Better Security
By providing end users with access to a variety of resources using a single set of login credentials, you can minimize the number of passwords and credentials—a prime target for cyberattacks—while enhancing their overall security.

Improved User Satisfaction
SSO allows users to log in once and gain seamless access to all the necessary applications. This not only provides the experience that employees and customers expect but also enhances your security.

Lower IT Costs
The large number of user credentials across cloud applications and on-premises networks leads to more password reset requests and increased security risks. SSO reduces these password reset requests, lowering user administration costs and minimizing the potential for data breaches.

Centralized Authentication
Single sign-on (SSO) is enabled by a centralized authentication service that allows all applications, including third-party ones, to verify a user's identity.

Token-Based Permissions
Identity standards such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect enable the secure transmission of encrypted tokens between the server and applications.

Access to Everything
Ping’s SSO capabilities act as a global authentication authority, enabling users to securely access all the applications they need from any device.

What is Identity Management?
Identity management solutions ensure that essential information from various identity sources across the enterprise is available precisely when and where your business needs it. They form the foundation for delivering personalized and secure access experiences for all users and devices, while also automating access provisioning and removal for your workforce.

Tailored Experiences
Customized user experiences are created using a diverse set of distributed identity data. Identity relationship management ensures that the appropriate identity data is provided to the right application at the right moment. When paired with orchestration, the possibilities for personalization are virtually endless.

Accelerated Access
Automated identity lifecycle management prevents security and IT teams from creating bottlenecks due to manual access approvals. Employees, contractors, and other internal users are granted timely access to the necessary digital assets.

Enhanced Security
Policy-driven rules that govern and audit how IT staff manage identity data enhance internal security. Profile and privacy management features empower customers and other users to control their identity data and its usage.

Identity Onboarding
Identity management starts when a new account is created for any user or device. At this stage, organizations verify identity details, assign credentials, groups, roles, and other relevant identity attributes.

Relationship Management
The strength of identity lies in relationships. Just as we use multiple spreadsheet tabs and pivot tables to organize data, relationship management allows you to connect various types of identity information and create customized “pivot tables” to generate unique data combinations, without needing to fit everything into a single “tab.”

Lifecycle Management
Identity data evolves over time—from a customer updating their mailing address to an employee changing job roles. Lifecycle management ensures that updated identity attributes are transferred to and from the necessary systems, maintaining a seamless and secure access experience.​​​​​​

What is Authentication?
Authentication is about granting access to the door, while authorization controls what happens once you're inside. It defines your access privileges, the business policies that govern them, and the contextual signals that influence access decisions. As a result, authorization is quickly becoming a crucial component of fraud prevention, compliance, and delegated access management. Ping Identity has been recognized by KuppingerCole as a market leader in Policy-Based Access Management (PBAM) and has developed robust authorization capabilities to meet these evolving demands.

Better Security
Identity security goes beyond access control – it also involves managing how your data is viewed and used. Safeguard sensitive data, services, and transactions from unauthorized access with centralized, granular authorization policies that can be quickly updated in minutes.

Seamless Experiences
Customizable logic around what your customers can view and do drives higher engagement, satisfaction, and revenue. By handling authorization in the background, you can offer a more seamless frontend experience while empowering users with self-service options for data-sharing.

Stronger Compliance
Stay compliant with regulations using attribute filters and privacy consent enforcement tools. Provide key risk, governance, and compliance stakeholders with intuitive drag-and-drop controls to manage access, sharing, and usage of data.

Centralized Policy Management
Offer a centralized administration platform for creating, editing, and testing policies that span all your applications, APIs, and data.

Fine-Grained Access Control
Make precise authorization decisions to allow, block, filter, or obfuscate access based on real-time context, aligning with your organization's policies on who can access what.

Delegated Admin
Enable the right business users and teams to implement relevant logic within a centralized policy engine, without requiring developer involvement.