Ping Identity buys Singular Key and promises smoother ID verification and access management

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Authenticating your users and managing entree to antithetic networks, services, information and different assets is 1 of the astir trying challenges faced by galore organizations today. A caller acquisition unveiled by individuality absorption steadfast Ping Identity whitethorn beryllium of involvement to immoderate concern grappling with this challenge.

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On Monday, Ping announced that it has acquired Singular Key, a institution that lets customers plan no-code oregon low-code individuality workflows to grip idiosyncratic authentication, individuality proofing and fraud detection.

Ping provides employees and customers with entree to each the services they necessitate done a secure, single-login experience. Put the 2 companies together, and the acquisition promises a smoother mode to instrumentality and negociate your relationship and idiosyncratic login and authentication processes.

The exertion down Singular Key tries to amended integrate antithetic individuality services with an easier mode to make workflows crossed disparate individuality technologies and platforms. The thought is to unify individuality verification, fraud prevention, hazard management, entree management, privileged entree and individuality governance into a azygous fabric.

Singular Key's exertion attempts to velocity up the integration of these antithetic services without depending connected DevOps oregon connected customized solutions. Enterprise customers are capable to amended the clip and labour spent successful improvement by compressing thousands of lines of codification into a azygous API. Overall, the exertion strives to assistance amended the velocity of deployment, accelerate unreality migration, trim costs and little the hazard associated with vendor lock-in, according to Ping Identity.

"Identity information is often analyzable by a tangled messiness of poorly integrated cloud, bequest bundle and API services," Ping Identity CEO and laminitis Andre Durand said successful a property release. "Singular Key's no-code individuality orchestration makes integrating individuality and different endeavor apps simple, allowing customers to execute amended end-user experiences successful little time."

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Singular Key's individuality integration hub offers much than 100 out-of-the-box, third-party integrations for identity, authentication and fraud services. This tin assistance customers integrate antithetic individuality services crossed antithetic vendors for individuality verification, authentication, authorization, provisioning, governance, privileged access, and hazard and fraud services.

Singular Key volition beryllium disposable done the PingOne Cloud Platform, allowing Ping Identity's existent and aboriginal customers to instrumentality vantage of the service.

"Simplifying and integrating individuality workflows to spot users' identities and devices with assurance is simply a captious portion of a bully customer, worker and spouse experience," Singular Key co-founder and CEO Jatin Maniar said successful the property release. "Joining forces with Ping Identity, a institution that is the individuality infrastructure backbone for the world's largest planetary businesses, is the cleanable acceptable for our team, and allows america to amended service our customers and partners."

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