Courion Corporation

Bringing Clarity to the Cloud (Manifesto)

Earlier this week, the Open Cloud Manifesto was announced by a number of major vendors. The cloud computing movement (if that's the right word) has tremendous potential, but our customers have told us time and again that before they can seriously consider moving mission-critical applications and data onto cloud-based platforms, they will need the same levels of access assurance that they require for internal applications. As a result, we were pleased to see the Manifesto authors specifically point out that security, including identity and access management, is essential for cloud-based applications to be successful, "Many organizations are uncomfortable with the idea of storing their data and applications on systems they do not control. Consistency around authentication, identity management, compliance, and access technologies will become increasingly important."

It has always been Courion's view that all companies have heterogeneous environments and their IAM solutions must be able to interoperate seamlessly across their entire range of enterprise applications, regardless of where they are relative to the corporate firewall.