Symantec VIP Integration Kit

Changelog

The following is the change history for the Symantec VIP integration kit.

Symantec VIP integration kit 2.0 - July 2025

  • Added the ability to obscure personally identifiable information (PII) in displayed user credentials. Learn more in the Visible Leading Characters Length and Visible Trailing Characters Length table entries in Symantec VIP IdP adapter settings reference.

  • Added the ability to create users automatically. Learn more in the Create User table entry in Symantec VIP IdP adapter settings reference.

  • Added support for number challenges in push notification authentication. Learn more in the Enable Number Matching in Push Notifications table entry in Symantec VIP IdP adapter settings reference.

  • Added the ability for users to configure and authenticate with SMS, voice, and email credentials. Learn more in the Enable Adding SMS Credential - Enable Adding Email Credential table entries in Symantec VIP IdP adapter settings reference.

  • Added documentation for the PingFederate authentication API. Learn more in PingFederate Authentication API support.

  • Removed legacy web application authentication and added support for template-based authentication. Learn more in Customizing templates.

    The vip-adapter-security-code-challenge.war directory is no longer in use. If you created a .war file to make customizations to this directory previously, you can re-implement your changes with the new HTML templates after upgrading the adapter.

  • Fixed an issue that allowed users without any configured credentials to attempt to authenticate, leading to a dead end in the authentication flow.

    This issue was applicable if the Suppress Add Credential checkbox was selected in the adapter configuration.

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.8.1 – February 2024

  • Fixed an issue that caused failures if a temporary code was used.

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.8 – July 2023

  • Added two new exposed attributes in the adapter contract, credential_type and credential_id. You can use these attributes to do branching logic in PingFederate authentication policies.

    • credential_type specifies the type of credential used to sign on to Symantec VIP.

    • credential_id specifies the credential ID used to sign on to Symantec VIP.

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.7.1 – March 2023

  • Fixed an issue that caused some sensitive information to display in the JSP.

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.7 – July 2022

  • Removed adapter-based session management.

  • Added the ability to retrieve the targeted application’s Application Name from the SP Connection in PingFederate when a push notification is triggered for an account.

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.6 – September 2021

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.5 – May 2020

  • Added support for the PingFederate localization framework.

  • Added the ability to select a default authentication method or allow users to choose.

  • Added the ability to skip the authentication prompt when a one-time password is provided.

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.4 – January 2018

  • SMS and voice are now supported for one–time passcode delivery.

  • Added ability to configure the maximum number of retry attempts for the one–time passcode.

  • Bug fixes.

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.3 – October 2016

  • Added support for VIP’s Access Push feature, which replaces the need for the user to manually enter a security code, by sending a push verification to the registered mobile device upon sign–in.

  • Validated solution against VIP’s latest API changes (SHA–1 to SHA–2 migration).

  • Updated html templates with the latest UI theme.

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.2 – August 2015

  • Added support to suppress the register credentials workflow.

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.1 – May 2014

  • Added the ability to override default VIP endpoint URLs.

  • Added support to register credentials.

  • Added support to reset credentials after two consecutive failed authentication attempts.

  • Added support for Symantec VIP API 1.1

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.0.1 – July 2011

  • Corrected malformed HTML which would prevent the Submit button from rendering on Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 5 browsers

Symantec VIP integration kit 1.0 – January 2011

  • Initial release