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[Ping Identity]( This Week's Top Ping Identity Blogs Blog Subscription Weekly Email ‌ Hello! Here's the latest and greatest from the Ping Identity blogosphere. [Keep Me Safe, Make Me Happy Pt 3]( Posted: Thursday, September 17, 2020 In [Part 1 of this series](, we started our journey of understanding why customers want both security and great customer experiences by examining how customer expectations have changed in the past few years. Customers want more than just great digital experiences: they also expect companies to protect their privacy and security and insist on [true security for their digital identities](. Today we’ll conclude this series by explaining how frictionless and enjoyable customer experiences can only be achieved by addressing security first. [View article]( [What Is Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)?]( Posted: Thursday, September 3, 2020 [View article]( [Why DevOps Matters to Identity Teams]( Posted: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 As organizations have accelerated their investments in digital initiatives, business and app teams have embraced the DevOps model, a process that speeds up software delivery. DevOps enables businesses to be agile enough to quickly adapt or be the first to market, which can have a tremendous impact on the bottom line. It’s time for identity to join the DevOps party. For far too long, identity initiatives have been stretched to their limits while struggling to keep pace with application growth. DevOps is starting to gain traction in the identity space—and for good reason, since identity is a key part of application onboarding. Without collaboration between identity teams and DevOps teams, many of the intended benefits of DevOps can quickly unravel. What Is DevOps? The DevOps methodology for software development breaks down traditional silos by eliminating manual tasks and replacing them with automation via code so that releases and updates can be pushed out faster and more frequently. At its core, DevOps improves the efficiencies between app development and IT operations or infrastructure teams. Previously, developers would make manual requests to identity teams or IT ops and lose valuable time. In DevOps, the identity teams enable the software to be consumable via APIs or infrastructure-as-code, the preferred methods for developers. In addition, the DevOps model has specific tools for implementation. The most common include Docker, which enables software in images or “containers,” and Kubernetes, the orchestration engine that manages containers. These tools allow developers to easily spin up infrastructure and perform updates with minimal interruption. [View article]( [4 Ways to Make More Intelligent Workforce Authentication Decisions]( Posted: Thursday, August 27, 2020 Earlier this year, many enterprises saw their once-bustling offices go quiet as company-wide work from home policies went into effect around the world. The shift to remote work has magnified the cracks in the traditional network approach to enterprise security. Once able to make access decisions based on whether employees are in the office or not, organizations can no longer rely on this binary process of workforce authentication decision making when all employees are working off premises. [View article]( [Future Proofing Your Workforce]( Posted: Monday, August 24, 2020 Identity security is transforming the way we work This Article was first published as a commercial feature on bbc.com and was created by BBC StoryWorks, BBC Global News’s commercial content division, on behalf of Ping Identity. Richard Bird, the Chief Customer Information Officer at Ping Identity, has been busy. Since stay-at-home orders relegated entire global corporations to the home office, he has been racing to help clients secure the digital identities of hundreds of thousands of employees, condensing projects that typically take months into mere days. [View article]( ‌ CHECK THESE OUT! ‌ [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Linked in]( [Youtube]( [CONTACT PING]( © Ping Identity. All Rights Reserved. 1001 17th Street, Suite 100 | Denver, CO 80202 | [+1 303-468-2900]( [Update preferences or unsubscribe »](