Identity authentication and access management Escort cloud security

"How do I manage my users ' SaaS account ' and their access?"

"How do I define and implement access policies for PaaS applications without creating more islands of security information?"

"How do I control the privileged users in IaaS, including each other and our own users?"

Do you sound familiar? As a cloud service consumers and suppliers, do you often encounter such problems?

Indeed, while cloud computing provides value to the enterprise, it also poses an unavoidable security problem for consumers and suppliers of cloud services, including public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. In the age of information security, the protection of information in IT environment has long been a topic of common concern.

The great challenge of cloud era: "Atom bomb" under information security

The cloud is a mixed, commercially driven it phenomenon that is created to respond to real economic hardship and growing pressure to reduce costs and improve computational efficiency and flexibility. Cloud computing solves many challenges, but it also creates many new problems. Cloud service consumers and suppliers in the cloud era are facing an unprecedented challenge, that is, the security of information, it is like a huge "atomic bomb" hidden dangers, many companies are still on the sidelines of the cloud service. Large organizations ask how to extend existing IAM systems, to manage users and their access to cloud-based applications and services; Small organizations will consider how to make the most of the cloud services without interfering with the user or their organization, and cloud service providers will focus on how to deliver IT services in an extremely efficient way, To meet the security needs of enterprises and consumers.

As an important service for enterprises, management and control depend on identity authentication and access Management (IAM), which is the central focus of the security of cloud services. Therefore, how to leverage existing IAM solutions to extend their scope to a mix of internal deployment (premise) and external deployment (Off-premise) environments is a security challenge for many enterprises.

But cloud computing does not devalue or go against the "internal deployment" IAM, introducing new trends that force us to look at the challenges across mixed cloud/enterprise planning in a more holistic perspective. So we conclude that the development of existing IAM technology is closely related to cloud computing. When an enterprise uses cloud computing to build and deploy applications, it will still play a crucial role.

To protect your IT assets with the most professional "bomb-breaking Force"

Like most large enterprises, CA Technologies is also a consumer of cloud services. As a consumer, our concerns with customers, analysts, and the media are consistent: the security, trust, compliance, and transparency of cloud services. It is understood that the development and use of cloud computing has exceeded the requirements of security systems and processes, in addition, cloud consumers for the cloud service provider infrastructure visibility is quite limited. As a result, control and monitoring are severely constrained in cloud computing.

In response to current problems, it software management enterprises have introduced a variety of security solutions. However, unlike other security products that only provide a partial solution, the CA Technologies Cloud security solution delivers end-to-end systems that can be used not only to manage identity authentication, but also to extend to the cloud environment (to the CLOUD), the Cloud environment (INSIDE the CLOUD) and information and applications derived from the cloud environment (from the CLOUD), it is possible to say that it provides the most professional "bomb-breaking force". The CA Technologies IAM Solution provides a proven solution for consumers and vendors of cloud services to protect critical IT assets in their current public cloud, private cloud, and mixed cloud.

CA Technologies identity authentication Management Cloud computing strategy and you welcome Cloud ERA Future

The IAM in the cloud Environment is aligned with the policy of CA Technologies, CA Technologies provides the following key advantages for enterprises of all sizes: reduce security risks by enhancing control, improve transparency, ease compliance, reduce management costs, and improve efficiency; Improve IT flexibility by automating security processes.

One of the biggest advances in CA Technologies IAM policies is the wide range of target customers. The concern of the CA Technologies IAM has been expanded beyond the scope of large enterprises and currently covers small organizations, cloud service providers and government entities. These organizations have different business goals and requirements, so we have to keep an eye on each type of customer and see how they use the cloud environment.

So, in order to better address the challenges we face, we work with analysts and customers to explore different case scenarios and divide them into three broad iam/cloud categories:

Extend Enterprise Legacy application IAM to Cloud environment (from IAM to cloud environment)

iam secure for cloud service providers (IAM within the cloud environment)

IAM services delivered by cloud environment (IAM at the bottom of cloud environment)

For these three cloud categories, organizations can use SaaS applications to address these issues, and CA Technologies provides different coping styles and strategic priorities.

As part of the Cloud Connected Enterprise policy of the CA Technologies Company, CA Technologies will present the development of existing IAM products, new IAM services, Collaborate with cloud service providers and in the industry to drive best practices and standards to address the issues described above. CA Technologies will work closely with various agencies to better understand dynamic trends and forecast future IAM SaaS requirements to escort your cloud security.