A Look Inside Ping Identity with Founder and CEO Andre Durand

A recent article in Forbes sheds light on Ping Identity, a 12 year old company that is “ironically” being labeled as an “instant success” as enterprises become more mobile and virtualized. In the Forbes interview Founder and CEO Andre Durand refers to this label as ironic as he states that they were at least 5 years ahead of the identity management curve in 2002 and in the early years “lucky to survive” as other technologies caught up to their Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution.

Ping Identity offers a single-sign-on (SSO), could security and identity management solution to enterprises to help companies secure end users. With today’s employee carrying multiple devices, accesses numbers applications through the cloud and signing into corporate networks from virtually any location on earth Ping Identity claims to have one of the most advanced and widely used identity management solutions in the market allowing for single-sign-on, identity federation and access management capabilities with set up and run time under 5 minutes. Durand is quoted as saying, “unlike any stack vendor (CA, Oracle, IBM etc.) we provide a best of breed Switzerland of identity integration.”

As stated earlier the first years of Ping’s existence was not always certain but as the cloud started to arrive in 2007 and smartphones and tables began to make a splash around 2009 things really began to take shape for Ping. With each of these shifts in how end users were accessing information and applications came the realization that identity management was becoming essential for enterprises. To that point Forbes reports that Ping has seen a growth of 50% year over year and that the enterprise identity business will double in value over the next 4-5 year to $8-12 billion.

“Our growth is fueled by enterprises needing to deal with their growing security and integration challenges as businesses become increasingly federated,” says Durand. “We’re seeing adoption from the largest enterprises in the world all the way down into the SMB market.”

What is next for IAM and the identity space you ask? Well Durand told Forbes that “I do see a point where consumer and enterprise identity converge, perhaps in the next 4-5 years. In the consumer world, our identity is being stripped from us so that it can be sold back to us. Five years from now, I envision a world where we have the right controls in the hands of the right people when it comes to identity. For enterprises, that means giving IT control over securing their distributed reality and for end-users, it means giving them control over how their identity is used.”

Click here to read the entire article from Forbes and for more on Ping Identity directly from the Founder and CEO Andre Durand.