Janrain Surpasses 3,400 Clients and Manages More Than 1.5 Billion Identities

PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Janrain®, the company that pioneered the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) category, today announced that its client base now exceeds 3,400 brands, and it manages more than 1.5 billion digital identities across a wide range of global industries, including financial services, retail, media and entertainment, healthcare/pharmaceutical, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, consumer electronics, travel and transportation, energy and utilities.

"After creating the CIAM market in 2002, Janrain has continued to pave the way with important industry-first innovations that can prepare global brands to make the most of the opportunities provided by the Internet of Things, social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and other major market forces," said Janrain CEO Jim Kaskade. "We continue to welcome clients with mission critical applications to the Janrain identity network, and we look forward to redefining brand-to-customer-to-things relationships in a hyperconnected age."

Janrain continues to capitalize on skyrocketing demand for digital identity solutions that provide better knowledge of and deeper engagement with consumers, all while simplifying and securing customer experiences across numerous web, mobile and social properties.

Recent milestones for Janrain include:

    --  Janrain is first to Launch Customer-centric Consent Lifecycle Management
        to Accelerate GDPR Adherence.
    --  Janrain is recognized as a leader in CIAM by independent research firm
        Forrester.
    --  Leading European Research Firm KuppingerCole names Janrain an Overall
        CIAM Leader.
    --  Janrain receives the highest ranking in TechVision Research's evaluation
        of CIAM providers.
    --  Janrain tapped by top global pharma companies to join new industry
        standards group Align Biopharma. The first two primary objectives are to
        define an identification and authentication standard to enable a single
        sign-on for HCPs to access online content--including websites, portals,
        virtual events or webinars--across all companies and to define standards
        for consent and preference management so that there is consistency in
        how HCPs specify communication preferences with each company.
    --  Janrain becomes the first CIAM provider to be GDPR ready, which helps
        ensure customers of Janrain's platform comply with the regulation's data
        protection rules.
    --  Janrain launches a new GDPR Primer and Readiness Assessment offering to
        help clients achieve compliance.
    --  Janrain becomes the first to integrate a fraud score with a CIAM
        solution to provide brands with early warning of illicit account
        activity before it occurs.
    --  Janrain expands its global data center footprint to 42 availability
        zones in 16 regions around the globe with 200+ data centers (Janrain is
        the only CIAM provider deployed in over 65 countries).
    --  Janrain celebrates more than two years since launching the industry's
        first CIAM platform in China.
    --  Janrain achieves 99.999% availability in May (other CIAM vendors
        struggle to achieve 99.95%).
    --  Janrain completes an in-depth CSA STAR Level 2 Attestation audit, which
        certifies our security measures specifically for the cloud and makes our
        security measures transparent and attestable for our clients. Janrain is
        the only CIAM vendor that has obtained a Level 2 STAR certification,
        which (unlike Level 1) includes a thorough independent audit.
    --  Janrain also maintains and is audited or assessed for
        certification/compliance with ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27018:2014 (PII
        Protections in the cloud), SOC 2 Type II (in addition to the Security
        Common Criteria, Janrain is compliant for the Availability and
        Confidentiality Trust SOC 2 Trust Principles), HIPAA (storage of
        healthcare data), HITECH (transmission of healthcare data), U.S.-E.U.
        Privacy Shield Framework, and the TRUSTe privacy program. Janrain is
        Open ID Connect (OIDC) certified, GDPR-ready, and is compliant for many
        other security/privacy regulations (examples: COPPA, PIPEDA, CFR - Code
        of Federal Regulations Title 21, Part 11).
    --  Janrain is the first to launch a European Union (EU) data center.
    --  Janrain is the first to provide broadest security enhancements to
        OpenID, including SSL certificates, InfoCard integration, anti-phishing
        site verification tools, and phone-based two factor authentication.
    --  Janrain is the first to create and deploy a universal OpenID login SDK
        (IDSelector), making it more intuitive for users and website operators.
    --  Janrain is the first to provide a turnkey website OpenID enablement
        solutions for companies (RPX).
    --  Janrain became the first to provide an OpenID SaaS platform (OPX) that
        allowed companies to centrally provision and manage a secure,
        comprehensive, branded OpenID to their employees or end-consumers.
    --  Janrain is the first and only OpenID provider service (myOpenID) for
        end-consumers to establish an OpenID, with the focus on self- sovereign
        digital identity capabilities.
    --  In 2004, founder Larry Drebes began working with Veritas, Microsoft and
        LiveJournal to establish the OpenID Foundation.
    --  In 2002, Janrain was formed with the support of Yahoo to be the first
        provider of Social Login services.

Related Links:
Forrester Wave: CIAM Q2 2017 Report
KuppingerCole Leadership Compass CIAM Platforms Report
TechVision "Getting to Know Your Customers: The Emergence of CIAM" report

About Janrain
Founded in 2002, Janrain pioneered Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) and is widely recognized by industry analysts as a global CIAM leader. The Janrain Identity Cloud® provides identity management, security and activation solutions that enable seamless and safe customer experiences across their digitally connected world, while providing enterprise organizations with deep customer insights. Janrain's identity capabilities include social and traditional login and registration, single sign-on, customer profile data storage and management, customer segments, customer insights and engagement solutions. The company powers brands like Pfizer, Samsung, Whole Foods, Fox News, Philips, McDonald's and Dr Pepper. Janrain is based in Portland, Oregon, with offices in London, Paris and Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.janrain.com and follow @janrain.

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