News Summary:
On August 20, 2026, Nexiden filed a lawsuit against Ping Identity, which now includes ForgeRock, alleging the company infringed patents related to mobile authentication with public key cryptography (PKC). Also on August 20, an in-depth comparison identified Ping Identity, encompassing ForgeRock, as one of the top five enterprise Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platforms for 2026, alongside Auth0 (Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud), Microsoft Entra External ID, IBM Verify, and WSO2 Identity Server. Previously, on August 18, Ping Identity listed its patient identity verification and fraud protection capabilities for MyChart in Epic Toolbox, designed to advance secure patient account creation and recovery. This followed an August 17 announcement from Ping Identity regarding its upcoming Ping YOUniverse 2026 conference in Austin, Texas, set to re-evaluate traditional identity security models—which focus on user authentication, account provisioning, and access protection—to accommodate the modern environment of autonomous AI agents.