Tagged: Cloud SSO



Strategic Role Cloud Service Brokers Will Play in the Cloud

Vordel CTO, Mark O’Neill explains in this interview with CTO Edge magazine the Strategic Role Cloud Service Brokers Will Play in the Cloud and why cloud service brokers are going to be the foundation for integrating dynamic sets of cloud computing services in a way that ultimately gives IT organizations maximum control over providers of cloud computing services.

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Cloud Gateway Solution

Despite the agility and cost advantages of Cloud computing, IT departments have adopted Cloud slowly due to concerns over security, privacy, compliance, and reliability. While IT remains cautious, business users have fully embraced Cloud based services. Cloud usage in the enterprise today is widespread and uncontrolled, with neither security nor audit. Data is uploaded into Dropbox and LinkedIn, and applications are put up at Amazon and Force.com. Whether Cloud is strategic to IT or not, as long as Cloud based services are being used, IT must manage Cloud based risks. Using Vordel Cloud Gateway reduces Cloud related risks.

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Vordel Access Gateway

Business applications handle sensitive data such as personal identifiable information (PII), business transactions, and intellectual property. With the growing adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud computing, mobile devices, and rich user interface technologies like AJAX, these sensitive data are being accessed by an explosion of clients via application interfaces such as SOAP Web Services and REST APIs. Vordel Access Gateway is the “front door” for enterprise applications and SOA infrastructure, securing, controlling, and mediating application integration interfaces.

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Webinar: Using Standards to Manage Access to SOA and Cloud Services

In this Webinar, participants will learn how a Gateway and a Policy Server work together to apply policies to SOA and Cloud services. These policies control not only who accesses the services, but also when they access the services, how they use the services, and how the access control decision is made. This Webinar will describe a best practice framework that scales to high-volume usage and allows reuse of policies, promoting efficiency and reducing time-to-market and developments costs.

Speakers:

Gerry Gebel
VP North America
Axiomatics		 Mark O’Neill
CTO
Vordel		 Felix Gaehtgens
Senior Analyst
Kuppinger Cole

What Will You Learn?

  • How to extend a secured environment beyond the corporate boundary and into the Cloud.
  • How to avoid heavy integration costs and generate higher returns on investment on existing infrastructures.
  • How an XML Gateway and XACML-based policy server combination provides maximum security with optimized access control.


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The “Don’t Trust” Model of Cloud Computing

The elephant in the room when it comes to barriers to the growth and adoption of Cloud computing by enterprises is the lack of trust held for  Cloud service providers.  Enterprise IT has legitimate concerns over the security, integrity, and reliability of Cloud based services.  The recent high profile outages at Amazon and Microsoft Azure, as well as  security issues at DropBox and Sony only add to the argument that Cloud computing poses substantial risks for enterprises.

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Cloud Authentication Standards

July 7, 2011 —  _CIOs naturally expect their organizations to make use of cloud applications, and often that means knitting cloud-based applications onto existing on-premise applications. The benefit is that users won’t have to enter more passwords or sign in a second time. The challenge is in choosing an authentication standard for authenticating users to the cloud services.

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