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PingFederate Reviews & Product Details

PingFederate is an enterprise federation server that enables secure user authentication and single sign-on (SSO) across various applications and services. It acts as a centralized authentication authority, facilitating seamless access for customers, employees, and partners without the need for multiple sign-ons or passwords. By supporting a wide range of identity protocols, PingFederate ensures interoperability and enhances both security and user experience. Key Features and Functionality: - Single Sign-On (SSO): Provides users with one-click access to multiple applications, reducing password fatigue and improving productivity. - Multi-Protocol Support: Supports industry-standard protocols such as SAML, WS-Federation, WS-Trust, OAuth, and SCIM, ensuring compatibility with various systems and applications. - Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Integrates with PingID to offer enhanced security through additional authentication factors. - Automated Provisioning: Streamlines user management by automating the provisioning and de-provisioning of user accounts. - Customizable Integration Kits: Offers SDKs and integration kits for custom applications, enabling tailored authentication solutions. - Extensive Audit and Logging: Provides comprehensive auditing and logging capabilities to meet compliance and service-level requirements. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: PingFederate addresses the challenges of managing secure and efficient access to applications in complex environments. By eliminating the need for multiple passwords and sign-ons, it enhances user experience and productivity. Its support for various identity protocols ensures seamless integration with existing systems, while features like MFA and automated provisioning bolster security and simplify user management. Overall, PingFederate empowers organizations to balance robust security measures with a frictionless user experience.

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PingFederate Reviews (34)

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Murali krishna Y.

SSO Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/30/2025

"Review on Pingfederate Console."

5/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

The most i like is its very easy to implementation and onboarding the applications and fro techncial support too for IAM related issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

what i dislike i this is it doesnt support PAM which is very useful for high protection based upon privileged access management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/17/2021

"Single Sign On for All Needs"

5/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

Ping Federate works with modern-day applications like SaaS and cloud applications. It brings Multifactor Authentication with various simplified authentication mechanisms. It also supports native .net and Java-based applications too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

The change of authentication is a serious concern. If I have replaced my phone and multifactor authentication is enabled, it is tough to change the authentication mode. Even though it aids in the security aspect of changing the authentication, it should provide the user with the ease to replace the device for authentication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PingFederate:

Ping Federate provides a Single Sign-On mechanism with password management and application integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingFederate solving and how is that benefiting you?

A significant challenge for all modern-day organizations who rely on the various cloud and SaaS-based technologies like Commercial Off The Shelf applications is to manage too many credentials of the users. It is a challenge for the users to remember the credentials of different applications. It is also a challenge to change the credentials for safety and security regularly. It is also an ask not to use the same credentials for multiple applications. Hence a Single Sign-On mechanism where the user relies on a single password, bio metric, or OTP-based authentication works wonders. Ping Federate solves this problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Umang B.

Security Administration Senior Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/14/2021

"Great On Prem IAM solution"

4/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

Pingfederate provides various customization as it an on-prem solution, So can add various pre-built or customized adapters.

Pinged is highly scalable and can be installed as standalone or in multiple nodes for load distribution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

As Pingfederate is on-premise, you need to take care of installations, upgrades, patches, and management of the servers, which take much effort and can cause outrage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PingFederate:

I highly recommend Pingfederate, as it's one of the best On-Premise solutions available in the market right now.

If you are planning to go for other products like Azure Ad, OKTA, Auth0, I recommend you to go for Pingfederate first as it will give you a profound understanding of how these IAM tools work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingFederate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Single Sign-on federation, it's good when you have clients like banks, healthcare companies who prefer to use on-premise solutions due to security constraints.

One of the best features of Pingfederate is you can use it as a service provider for applications that do not supports SAML. In this scenario, PingFed can act as both Service Provider and Identity Provider.

You can also have features like conditional policy, B2B support, and MFA support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aravinth V.

Technical Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/22/2021

"Best SINGLE SIGN ON service"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

Working without any lags and issues always, so highly consistent in providing the sign in service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

Sometimes automatically timeout will come and sessions will be expired. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PingFederate:

One of the best single sign on Authenticator for Internal corporate website and applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingFederate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using Ping we are reducing the multiple signing in to our internal applications and websites to authenticate the users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek M.

Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/17/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Insights on PingFederate"

4/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

PingFederate is easy to install and configure in any Public cloud or On-premises infrastructure.

It gives flexibility to Security engineers to customize their features as per the requirement.

If anyone is looking to work on access management field then I recommend to use PingFederate for few years then try exploring other products like okta or Azure AD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

There is nothing like for which people dislike PingFederate.

But as it works on IAAS service model so before installing & Configuring PingFederate we need to think on several other aspects like

Networks

Firewalls

Proxy servers

Operating system

Memory requirements

And some more ..so may be few people don't want these stuffs to handle ..

But acc. to me PingFedetate help you to become an Architect . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PingFederate:

My recommendation to everyone to use once Pingfederate for access management so that you will get the complete understanding of SSO architecture...

After using for few years you can explore other products also like okta or Azure AD .

Pingfederate is one of the best and leading Products in Access Management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingFederate solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are multiple problems that PingFederate helps to resolve :

1-> It helps to provide Single Sign On to diff. Web applications by using different web protocols like SAML ,WS-Fed ,OAuth & Openid.

2-> If any web application is not supporting SAML then also we can provide SSO feature by using a method in Pingfederate where Pingfederate will work both as a Service Provider and Identity provider.

3-> Pingfederate provides diff. types of selectors like CIDR, Domain based selector ,Cookie based selector which helps to build logics as per required Condition.

4- > Pingfederate is having different types of adapters which helps to provide a different kind of authentication mechanism.

5-> It also helps for B2B Scenario.

Currently we have build B2B solution inside pingfeferate.

We have developed a Domain based selector which helps us to distinguish client users and other users.

For client users Simply Pingfederate will act as a Identity Provider and authenticate a user and send a SAML response to target application.

But for other users Pingfederate will act as a Service Provider and it will redirect the request to Salesforece which is acting as a Identity Provider ..

6-> It gives different types of authentication as per the risk ..

Like for client no mfa

But for Internet there will be MFA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aditya J.

Security Delivery Analyst - Identity and Access Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/28/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Helpful Experience using PingFederate"

4/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

Very easy way to configure any IDP or SP initiated connections. I have been using more than 3 years this product. The amazing and helpful Experience I have. Even more, right now I started learning and working on PingFederate APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

Limitation is to export all the connections with their connection name.

Export all the certificates with their certificate's name. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/7/2021

"Easy to use, deploy and work with more interactive features."

4.5/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

The most helpful was the social login where we can login using the social handle credentials.

And multifactor Authentication provided by Ping One is more convenient and optimisations are very helpful.

The intelligent authentication feature where if is on premise no mfa other networks will ask for MFA.

Ping federate offers more customisations and pre installed adapters which will be easy to configure and deploy in any environment either in on premises or cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

There are some limitations when the LDAP Implementations are based on old gen tools like Netiq. Which will results in causing issues in cloud authentication of ping federate.

The implementation involves more steps when compared to older versions.

The dashboard UI experience need to improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/16/2021

"PingFederate works smoothly"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

Ease of use. Self-service on setting up 2FA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

Was actually prepared to not like it, but found it fairly transparent to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Priya A.

Security Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/22/2021

"I worked on PingFederate for SSO and features are very user friendly, I want to explore more on this"

5/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

Leveraging authentication and authorization APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

MFA capabilities if we can use inside PingFederate tool then it would add more advantage to the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/9/2021

"Pingfederate Overview"

5/5

What do you like best about PingFederate?

PF is one of the best IAM tool basically used for the SSO, MFA.

Pingfederate is easy to install and can be easily configured on any platform(windows, Linux).

One of the best tool for SSO with enhanced features of saml oauth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PingFederate?

Nothing as it's one of the best Iam tool but before installing we have to check each and every aspect as per the client requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PingFederate:

Yes of course any organization can use because of it seamlesss features for Single signon Setup process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PingFederate solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are many benefits few of them are for Application boarding ,

Policy selector,

API,

SAML configuration,

User provisioninv process,

MFA,

SSO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.