Ping Identity Corporation today announced that the U.S. Department of Justice Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) program has selected PingFederate for its Trusted Credential Project (TCP). RISS supports efforts to combat terrorist activity, illegal drug trafficking, organized criminal activity, and other criminal priorities across jurisdictional lines. The RISS TCP initiative expands online collaboration and the sharing of selected information between local, state, federal, and tribal law enforcement member agency personnel using RISSNET, the RISS Secure Intranet.

To implement a standards-based, secure method for accepting digital identities coming from trusted partner networks across jurisdictional lines, the RISS TCP project team selected Ping Identity’s award-winning PingFederate federation server. When fully deployed, PingFederate will be part of the expanded RISSNET architecture used to enable law enforcement and criminal justice agencies throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the U.S. Territories to share intelligence and coordinate efforts against criminal and terrorist networks that operate in multiple locations.

“Cross-domain credentialing allows officers who have authenticated to their trusted agency system to access resources available via RISSNET without having to re-authenticate,” said Larry Maloney, Senior Project Manager for the RISS Trusted Credential Project. “The six regional RISS centers support local member agencies with unique IT infrastructures. With PingFederate, we can provide expanded information sharing and collaboration while allowing our partners to keep their current infrastructure investments intact.”

“This contract award followed strict federal guidelines for usability, ease-of-integration, interoperability and security,” said Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity. “Identity Federation continues to remove barriers between organizations. PingFederate fundamentally enables organizations – in both the private and public sectors – to better execute their missions and achieve collaborative success via cross-domain single sign-on.”

In a companion release issued today, Ping Identity Corporation also announced its new initiative designed to meet the unique cross-domain credentialing and federated identity management needs of government agencies.

About PingFederate

Award-winning PingFederate is a standalone federation server with multi-protocol capabilities for SAML 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and WS-Federation single sign-on. PingFederate can be downloaded directly from Ping Identity at www.pingidentity.com. PingFederate is certified Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 interoperable and GSA E-Authentication compliant. For more information, please contact Ping Identity toll-free at + 1 877.898.2905 or 1 303.468.2882, or email sales@pingidentity.com.

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 Boeing, Cisco, New York Life and Pulte Homes. Sign on to Ping Identity; sign on to what’s next. For more information, please visit www.pingidentity.com.