 When more of today' s business are turning onto the cloud, security is becoming one of the major concerns. Cloud-based, business critical applications are becoming very popular, therefore the secure management and control of these applications presents a major issue.
Gemalto, a cloud security company has a cloud security application called CloudEntr which claims to resolve existing issues around cloud applications security.
Nowdays anyone within the organisations can easily access any cloud-based applications from the cloud in a very short space of time. But remembering the passwords users use, changing them frequently, forgetting the passwords users have created, writing them down to remember, all these presents a lot of headaches, both for individual users and for the company and the organisations.
Cloud Security applications like CloudEntr is beleived to be the solution for the security protection. Claim is that the passwords of all web applications are securely managed within CloudEntr and cloud based users can access it from anywhere and from any device in the world.
on-premise IAM technologies, cloud IAM solutions are in general much easier and faster to deploy and use than their on-premise counterparts. And companies with existing investments in enterprise IAM may choose to extend their capabilities to the cloud through integration with cloud IAM solutions. "CloudEntr by Gemalto gives businesses a simple and secure way to manage cloud application access. Using CloudEntr, businesses regain control of their trust networks and cloud applications, while offering users convenient one-click access for all web applications in a single interface. CloudEntr reduces complexity while helping businesses operate anywhere, anytime, and at the right scale. Gemalto’s security and authentication expertise is trusted by many of the world’s largest financial institutions and governments." - Quoted from Whitepaper published by Gemalto |