Make identities part of the cloud OS

Imagine not having to have to worry about the dangers of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Symplified is not promising enterprises that its cloud identity and access management (IAM) solution will eliminate them, but company founder, CEO and Chairman Eric Olden will tell an audience next Wednesday at the Credit Suisse Disruptive Technology Conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif., that the threats can be minimized by putting more of the security tools in the cloud.

Symplified calls itself the “Cloud Identity Company,” and Olden said that is the model he believes is mandatory if enterprises are going to manage and prosper with the disruptive technologies of both mobile devices and the cloud.

“The sheer number of identities and things that need to be secured, whether they are data, applications or people, has grown exponentially,” Olden said. “And the way we thought about securing access is broken.”

“Second, the way companies are approaching IT has completely changed. Platforms like Salesforce and Google are running things — out there [in the cloud],” he said. “With mobile users, it creates a totally different problem. The devices are not owned by the enterprise, yet they’re being used to access it.” ReadCheck the Make identities part of the cloud OS article