Trends Report

Understanding Simple Cloud Identity Management

With The SCIM Specifications, User Provisioning Goes "Zero Trust"

July 15th, 2011
Eve Maler, null
Eve Maler
With contributors:
Stephanie Balaouras , Andras Cser , Jessica McKee

Summary

Business owners are jumping on SaaS services to get quicker wins, and CIOs are finding these services attractive for cutting costs as well. Since it's relatively quick and easy to hook up these services and get going, security and risk professionals struggle to ensure that the correct users obtain — or are denied — access to them. Identity provisioning will look quite different in the era of cloud services. Learn how the nascent Simple Cloud Identity Management API will affect your provisioning processes.

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