Open standards are key for security in the cloud

The current divide between proprietary and open approaches to enterprise cloud computing has implications beyond the obvious. More than just issues of cloud interoperability and data portability, open standards have benefits for user identity, authentication and security intelligence that closed or proprietary clouds threaten to compromise.

Our belief is that an open cloud is a more secure one and it begins with identity.

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