From ‘Identity in the Cloud’ to ‘Cloud Identity’

This report investigates the intersection of identity management, security for cloud computing and the service-enablement challenges facing cloud service providers and their customers. As identity has emerged as a key enabling technology for the cloud and desktop and application virtualization, as well as enterprise adoption of mobile computing, the market is now contending with what the cloud requires for identity management as a technology set relative to what the identity management industry can deliver. The question now posed by cloud computing and services-enablement automation requirements is: What could an organization do in the cloud? How could the cloud help make business processes more efficient and seamlessly integrated? Framed in terms of enabling technology, the question is now broader than getting users (or other entity identities) through the front door; it’s what they can do once they have authenticated to an API – regardless of the authentication protocol. In this report, we analyze how these cloud computing demands for granularity of policy definitions, service automation and transparent security are driving a demarcation between ‘legacy’ and ‘cloud’ identity management.

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