Identity management is key to the proper operation of cloud computing

The Open Cloud Manifesto deserves your support Security: Identity Management Alert NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Avaya Effective Workers' Communications Tools In this paper, discover the positive impact of UC on both day-to-day interactions as well as goals such as business process efficiency, customer loyalty and profitability. Explore the communications dilemmas faced by workers, management, technology teams, and organizations as a whole. Spotlight Story Identity management is key to the proper operation of cloud computing By Dave Kearns One of the hot buttons, or buzz phrases, these days is "cloud computing." Boiled down, it's just like client-server computing except: a) you don't own the server; b) you don't know where the server really is; and c) you may not even know where your data resides. All that aside, there remains the issues of authentication and authorization; provisioning; entitlement management; governance; compliance; risk management; single sign-on; and all of the other facets of identity management. Is anybody even thinking about those? Read full story Dave Kearns is a consultant and editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management. Related News: Cloud computing needs better security, interoperability to live up to hype If cloud computing is to move beyond the hype cycle, vendors need to put aside their differences and agree on common principles related to security and the interoperability of cloud platforms. Cloud computing vendors converge on standard definition, goals Cloud computing vendors are moving toward a common definition and forming industry groups to collaborate on building cloud technologies. 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