(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an effort to foster new levels of trust in online services, Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign (www.verisign.com) is collaborating with other industry leaders to develop online identity best practices and market solutions for enterprise cloud services and applications.
According to an announcement this week, the Cloud Security Alliance combines technologies and best practices from Conformity, Ping Identity, TriCipher, Qualys, and now VeriSign. The non-profit organization formed in late 2008 to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance in the cloud, and provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.
“Barriers to cloud adoption go beyond security; it’s about trust,” Cloud Security Alliance executive director Jim Reavis said in a statement. “To create a trusted cloud-based ecosystem, it takes global associations like the Cloud Security Alliance and our Trusted Cloud Initiative, as well as industry leaders like VeriSign and its partners to establish identity trust solutions built on proven technologies, common standards and best practices. This industry effort is a welcome contribution to the SaaS community, and a reassuring and valuable option for enterprises aiming to confidently deploy cloud-based applications and services.”
Authenticating and protecting the identity of all parties is vital to establishing trust in the cloud. By integrating VeriSign’s server and end user solutions, cloud computing and SaaS providers will be better equipped to assure enterprises that their IT policies and controls will remain unchanged within the cloud. Building on its experience in delivering trust to websites via Secure Sockets Layer certificates, VeriSign is confident in delivering identity trust to end users and devices using its strong authentication capabilities.
“Cloud computing offers organizations new options for scalable, cost-effective, and flexible IT, but to gain the full benefits of these services, enterprises have to trust the security, policies, and processes of the cloud,” VeriSign product development vice president Nico Popp said in a statement. “Trust won’t happen if users worry their identities are vulnerable, or if they’re unsure whether the cloud-based service they’re accessing is legitimate. That makes identity trust the essential ingredient for cloud migration — and an industry imperative for SaaS providers.”
The Cloud Security Alliance is the latest in a long list of influential cloud computing community consortia and standards bodies to which VeriSign frequently contributes. Other initiatives include OpenID, OIX and SafeMashups.
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