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Accelerating Ping Deployment with Midships Accelerator
How One of the UK’s Largest Banks Fast-Tracked Their Ping Identity Deployment with the Midships Accelerator One of the UK’s largest banks—ranked among the top 25 globally with over 30 million customers—set out to deploy the Ping Identity platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The bank required a production-grade deployment  capable of meeting stringent enterprise standards across security, scalability, operational control, and multi-region resilience . Key requirements included: Native...
Have You Checked Your Ping EOS Dates - Midships Helps You Prepare, Upgrade, and Protect Your IAM
Understanding Ping Product Support Status Ping Identity has formalised its product lifecycle — and for many organisations, the deadlines are approaching faster than expected. The new Support Status model finally gives clarity, but it also exposes a hidden risk: many enterprises are already running versions that are nearing End of Maintenance or End of Support.  The shift to STS (Short-Term Support) and LTS (Long-Term Support) finally brings predictability to upgrade planning — but it also...
Proactive Incident Management: The Midships Guardian Approach
Recently, one of our customers reported what looked like a Severity 4 issue. Most teams would log, schedule, and resolve it in due course. But at Midships, we saw something more significant. Our engineers recognized that, if left unchecked, this issue could escalate to a Severity 1 . Such an escalation can bring systems down or disrupt business-critical services. Instead of waiting for that to happen, we acted immediately. Acting Before the Problem Escalates We spun up our Incident Bridge ...
Understanding Passkeys: The Future of Passwordless Authentication
What are Passkeys? Passkeys are a modern, passwordless authentication mechanism based on FIDO2 and WebAuthn standards. They allow users to securely sign in using cryptographic keys instead of traditional passwords. Unlike passwords, which are static and shareable secrets, passkeys utilize asymmetric encryption —a public-private key pair . The private key is securely stored on the user’s device and never leaves it. What sets passkeys apart from standard WebAuthn credentials is their ability...
WebAuthn (Web Authentication)
What it is: WebAuthn  (Web Authentication) is a modern web standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)  and FIDO Alliance  that enables passwordless , phishing-resistant , and public key cryptography-based  user authentication on the web. It is a core component of the FIDO2  framework, alongside CTAP (Client to Authenticator Protocol) . WebAuthn allows browsers and applications to register and authenticate users using a cryptographic key pair  stored in a secure authenticator —...
LDAP/AD federation
What is it: LDAP/AD Federation  is the process of integrating enterprise directory services — such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)  directories or Microsoft Active Directory (AD)  — with external applications or Identity Providers (IdPs) to enable secure and seamless authentication without duplicating user data. LDAP is a protocol standard for querying and modifying directory services over TCP/IP, while AD is a proprietary Microsoft directory service that implements LDAP and...
When (and How) to Choose Keycloak — and Why to Partner with Midships
Keycloak is a robust, open-source Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution. Enterprises value it for standards compliance, cost advantages, and flexibility. However, running Keycloak at scale with high availability, predictable upgrades, and enterprise-grade user journeys requires more than the default distribution. Midships bridges that gap with our Keycloak Accelerator , which delivers: Zero-downtime deployment and operations Autoscaling and high-availability clustering Device...
The Role of Midships in Identity Management
Identity management stands at the core of digital security for banks, insurers, gaming platforms, and fintech leaders. The challenge is...
Enhancing Customer Journeys with the PingOne AIC Accelerator
For teams building customer journeys, speed and consistency matter just as much as functionality. That’s where the PingOne AIC Accelerator comes in. It allows developers to create and test journeys locally in the same way they would in the cloud. This leads to faster iterations, more confidence, and less back-and-forth between environments. A Client Challenge One of our clients recently faced a roadblock: themes weren’t working in their local setup. They could build the journeys, but the user...
Better PingAM Source Code Management with FACT
Customer Overview A leading gaming institution in the SEA region, leveraging the Midships Ping AIS Accelerator, sought to modernize the...
The Benefits of Regularly Updating Tooling: A Technical Perspective
Abstract In modern platform engineering, tooling forms the backbone of system performance, security, and scalability. Despite this, many...
Using BDD for Building User Journeys in PingOne AIC/AIS
Introduction to Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) is a collaborative software development methodology...
Design a Reliable PingDS Backup Strategy
Introduction   Backups are essential, but they’re only valuable if they can be restored quickly and reliably. In modern infrastructure,...
Where Midships Is Headed: Focused Expansion, AI Readiness, and Our Continued Commitment to Ping
As Midships continues to scale, we’ve taken time to reflect on where the market is heading—and what our customers will need from us next. Identity and Access Management (IAM) has changed. The core customer journeys and platform architectures have become increasingly commoditised. At the same time, the rise of AI is set to reshape how consulting firms operate—ours included. In response, we’re evolving. Not by pivoting away from what we do best, but by building intentionally toward what’s...
Cross-regional Deployment including Mainland China with the Midships Ping AIS Accelerator
Introduction A valued client who was already running the Midships Ping AIS Accelerator  in their Hong Kong environment, requested our...
Identity Providers are Becoming Commodities — It's Time to Shift Focus
Identity Providers (IDPs) are becoming commoditized — and that’s a good thing. The core functions of identity management have largely...
Hybrid CIAM Architecture With ID Cloud
Control CIAM Resiliency with Hybrid Architecture This paper discusses Midships' design and implementation of a hybrid Customer Identity &...
Phased Device Migration to Ping
How PingGateway Enabled a Controlled, Risk-Managed Migration to Modern Identity In a fast-moving digital identity landscape, enterprises must evolve authentication systems with minimal disruption. Midships Organization, operating globally, sought to transition from a legacy DAON deployment pattern to a modern, standards-based approach with PingAM  and FIDO2  device credentials. Rather than executing a risky “big bang” switch, the team architected a phased migration  strategy, using...
Designing CIAM For Retail Banking: All The Core Journeys You'll Need
The Reality Check Too often, CIAM  journeys are built one channel at a time. Mobile login here, web onboarding there, branch-only password resets. It works at first—until it doesn’t. As each channel evolves, it throws new demands at CIAM. You patch, you duplicate, you tech-debt your way forward. Before long, your identity layer becomes a spaghetti mess. This article is your escape route. We’re laying out a definitive list of IAM journeys and features that a retail bank CIAM should have to...
Kubernetes Outage and Recovery
Why Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets (PDBs) Are Essential for High Availability In today’s always-on digital landscape, zero downtime...
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