An Authentication Authority at Your Fingertips: PingFederate

Authentication Authority Overview: Why You Need an Authentication Authority

Having an authentication authority within your infrastructure allows you to have a single source of truth to authenticate users for any asset, across your entire enterprise. This is a foundational approach to identity and access management (IAM), which keeps your business agile, scalable and secure that eliminates silos while creating a frictionless experience for your users.

This can be done with the help of PingFederate, an authentication solution that integrates with your existing applications across your hybrid IT environment, so you can have one centralized authentication service for users, no matter how and where they’re logging in from.

This whitepaper is a guide that will help you get the most out of your PingFederate solution, covering topics such as:

• An overview of your authentication authority

• Supported identity types

• Application integration, as well as out-of-the-box provisioning and integrations

• How to enforce strong authentication with best practices

• Etc.