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.” Read more Make identities part of the cloud OS