Introduction Of Ping Directory

Whether you are managing customer, employee or partner identities, it’s critical to have a modern data store that’s tailored for identity attributes enabling you to deliver unified user profiles and a single source of truth across your enterprise. PingDirectory is an advanced directory server solution that offers high performance, scalability, and reliability. Its goal is to provide a secure repository for storing and managing identity information while ensuring data privacy and supporting access management tasks. Using this we can also manage identities across hybrid information technology resources. You can integrate multiple directories like Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, NetIQ, Oracle and Tivoli.

Before moving into Ping Directory let’s talk about what is Ping Identity and Ping One. Ping Identity and PingOne are two different IAM solutions offered by Ping Identity Corporation. Aim to provide secure and convenient authentication and authorization services.

Ping Identity

Ping Identity is primarily an on-premises IAM solution. It can be installed and managed within an organization's own infrastructure. Ping Identity offers high scalability and can handle large-scale deployments. Well-suited for organizations with complex infrastructure and extensive user bases. Provides extensive customization options, allowing organizations to tailor the IAM solution according to their specific needs. This includes the ability to integrate with various third-party applications and systems.

PingOne

PingOne is a cloud-based IAM solution. The infrastructure and management of the solution are handled by Ping Identity in the cloud. PingOne is more suitable for small to medium-sized businesses with simpler IAM requirements and fewer users. PingOne offers a more standardized and streamlined approach, with less flexibility for customization.  This simplicity enables easier implementation and management for organizations with less complex requirements.

What is Ping Directory?

• Ping Directory is a fast, scalable directory used to store identity and rich profile data.

• Organizations that need maximum uptime for millions of identities use Ping Directory to securely store and manage sensitive customer, partner, and employee data.

• Ping Directory acts as your single source of identity truth.

• A high-performance, extensible LDAP directory.

How Ping Directory Works?

• Users get loaded into PingDirectory through import, API connection, manual entry or bidirectional, real-time synchronization from LDAP, RDBMS, JDBC, or SCIM data stores.

• Both structured and unstructured user data are secured and stored by leveraging encryption, password validators, cryptographic log signing, and more.

• Out-of-the-box load balancing, rate limiting, and data transformations with an integrated proxy ensure maximum server performance and user data availability at scale during peak usage.

Products of Ping Directory

• PingDirectory server.

• PingDirectoryProxy server.

• Delegated Admin application.

• PingDataSync server.

What does Ping Directory offer?

• Bidirectionally synchronize existing data stores, including Microsoft Active Directory, LDAPv3, SCIM 2.0, RDBMS, MDM, CRM and more.

• Augment your existing user profiles with structured and unstructured application-specific attributes.

• Deliver access to a unified profile through developer-friendly REST APIs.

• Optimize load balancing, rate limiting and data transformation with an integrated proxy.

Conclusion

PingDirectory serves as a robust, high-performance, and scalable solution for managing identity data across diverse IT environments. It plays a crucial role in ensuring data privacy, secure storage, and efficient access management for millions of identities. With capabilities like bidirectional synchronization, advanced data transformations, and integration with various directories and databases, PingDirectory is a versatile tool for modern identity management needs. Whether deployed in complex on-premises infrastructure or integrated with other IAM solutions, PingDirectory empowers organizations to maintain a single, reliable source of truth for user identities, enhancing security and streamlining access management across their enterprise.