Ping Identity Corporation today announced that the PingFederate Integration Kit for Citrix Presentation Server Platinum Edition is now available for download from its Web site, www.pingidentity.com. As was previously announced at Citrix iForum™ Global 06 in Orlando, Fla., the new PingFederate integration kit brings the most complete federation functionality available in the marketplace to users of Citrix’s Presentation Server and application delivery infrastructure solutions.

Until now, single sign-on (SSO) via an Identity Federation has been limited to Web applications. This Integration Kit extends the reach of SAML and WS-Federation SSO beyond Web applications to also include any client/server applications that have been virtualized using Citrix Presentation Server. The PingFederate Integration Kit for Citrix Presentation Server enables external users to access Citrix Presentation Server environments with SSO access. Managing user credentials for external users becomes a thing of the past.

“By leveraging Citrix Presentation Server Platinum Edition, PingFederate enables single sign-on access to the wide array of existing non-Web applications often omitted from federation solutions, and provides for a trusted relationship across domains to allow access without entering additional credentials,” said Scott Herren, Group VP and general manager, Virtualization Systems Group, Citrix Systems. “We are already seeing the value of this best-of-breed solution as part of Citrix’s end-to-end application delivery solution.”

“Since we announced the PingFederate Integration Kit for Citrix Presentation Server last October, the interest has been tremendous,” said Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity. “In addition to a production deployment at one of the nation’s largest healthcare insurance providers, we have seen strong demand from other insurance providers, investment banks, and heavy equipment manufacturers.”

The PingFederate Integration Kit for Citrix Presentation Server requires no direct integration with Citrix Presentation Server. It is a lightweight solution that requires only the Citrix Web Interface. The integration kit uses constrained delegation to authenticate against Microsoft Active Directory and generates Integrated Windows Authentication credentials to access Citrix Presentation server. Customers have expressed appreciation for this approach for enabling external SSO into Citrix Presentation Server because it enables them to deploy a Citrix Web Interface site for external SSO with no additional modifications to their existing Citrix implementations.

Product Availability
The PingFederate Integration Kit for Citrix Presentation Server Platinum Edition is available today from Ping Identity. For more information, please contact the company at +1 877.898.2905 (+1 303.468.2882 outside North America) or sales@pingidentity.com.

About Citrix Presentation Server
Citrix Presentation Server is the de facto standard for delivering Windows applications at the lowest cost—to any user, anywhere. It offers both application virtualization and application streaming delivery methods to enable the best access experience for any user, with any device, working over any network. By centralizing applications and data in secure data centers, IT can reduce costs of management and support, increase data security, and facilitate business continuity. Presentation Server allows IT to deliver applications as a service—providing on-demand access to users, while affording IT the flexibility to leverage future application architectures.

About Ping Identity Corporation
Ping Identity is uniquely dedicated to delivering Internet Identity Management software and services that are transforming how organizations work with employees, customers and business partners. Our open and flexible approach offers best-of-breed software complemented with best- in-class service that exceeds the ever-expanding needs of customers like Caterpillar, Comcast, E*TRADE, New York Life and the US Department of Justice. For more information, please visit http://www.pingidentity.com, call Ping Identity toll-free at + 1 877.898.2905 or +1 303.468.2882, or email sales@pingidentity.com.