The LinkedIn, Twitter, and Microsoft Live Cloud Identity Connectors enable the social networking sites to be used for third party authentication. Users visiting an e-business website are able to sign-on and register using an existing consumer identity. The PingFederate Cloud Identity Connectors is installed as an add on to the PingFederate service, the identity connectors using configuration information from PingFederate to create the HTML and javascript code necessary to develop log-in pages featuring the logos of the top social networking websites.
The Cloud Identity Connectors interface with the LinkedIn, Twitter and Microsoft Live APIs utilizing the OAuth service for consent/authorization and authentication. Ping Identity is able connect cloud businesses with other cloud services and social network sites, including Google (and other OpenID 2.0 providers), Salesforce and Facebook.
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