[April 30, 2012]

Google Sponsors Cloud Identity Summit 2012

Ping Identity^®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced that Google (News - Alert) will serve as the Gold Workshop Sponsor for this year's Cloud Identity Summit, taking place July 16-20 at Vail, Colorado's Cascade Resort. The 2012 Cloud Identity Summit explores the role of identity as the new perimeter and examines ways cloud computing, mobile device access and social networking are transforming business and IT.

As the Gold Workshop Sponsor, Google is the premier sponsor for two full days of pre-conference workshop sessions. As one of the workshops, Google will present "How Google Will Help Your Site Get Out of the Password Business." During this session, Google will examine how technologies like SAML, OpenID and OAuth are enabling users to log into websites without requiring a password, and summarize the current best practices and adoption of these techniques.

"As cloud, mobile and social continue to redefine the network boundary, identity remains at the center of this significant shift," said Andrew Nash, director of internet identity, Google. "The Cloud Identity Summit represents the premier event for tackling the key issues facing the industry today and we look forward to joining both cloud identity and security experts at this event to navigate this emerging landscape."

Cloud Identity Summit 2012 preconference workshops, are scheduled for Monay, July 16 and Tuesday, July 17 and include:

• OpenID Connect Technology Interop (News - Alert) - OpenID Foundation
• OIDF Summit - OpenID Foundation
• SAML Hands On - Secure Cloud SSO Workshop - Ping Identity
• OAuth Hands On - Secure API's Workshop - Ping Identity
• OIX Summit - OIX
• Advanced Federation Use-Cases with PingFederate Workshop - Ping Identity
• Understanding the Cloud Identity Standards Ecosystem Lecture - Ping Identity
• BYOD meets IdM Lecture - Rocky Mountain Garden
• On-Demand Cloud Single Sign-On with PingOne Workshop - Ping Identity
• Hands-on with OAuth, Facebook (News - Alert) and the Force.com Platform Workshop - Salesforce
• How Google will Help Your Site get out of the Password Business Workshop - Google
• OpenID Connect Hands On Workshop - Ping Identity
• Going Mobile with PingFederate and OAuth 2.0 - Ping Identity

Other sponsors of the Cloud Identity Summit include, KPMG (Platinum Conference Sponsor), SailPoint (Silver Sponsor), Radiant Logic, Inc. (Emerald Sponsor), Covisint (Diamond Sponsor), Axiomatics Americas (Solution Sponsor), Courion (Solution Sponsor), Identropy (Solution Sponsor) Innotribe (Solution Sponsor), Oracle (News - Alert) (Solution Sponsor), Symplified (Solution Center) and Ping Identity. Visit www.cloudidentitysummit.com for more information and to register for the event.

About Cloud Identity Summit

Ping Identity's Cloud Identity Summit is the premier conference dedicated to the role of identity in cloud security. With 15 expert led, hands-on educational workshops and over 30 industry speakers, the Cloud Identity Summit brings together hundreds of the world's top experts, implementers and vendors into a single week of knowledge sharing.

About Ping Identity | The Cloud Identity Security Leader

Ping Identity provides cloud identity security solutions to more than 800 of the world's largest companies, government organizations and cloud businesses. With a 99% customer satisfaction rating, Ping Identity empowers more than 42 of the Fortune 100 to secure hundreds of millions of employees, customers, consumers and partners using secure, open standards like SAML, OpenID and OAuth. Businesses that depend on the Cloud rely on Ping Identity to deliver simple, proven and secure cloud identity management through single sign-on, federated identity management, mobile identity security, API security, social media integration, and centralized access control. Visit pingidentity.com for more information.

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