In the current edition of  CIO Update  www.cioupdate.com they outline their list of 2010’s ten hot trends. Interesting stuff for sure, I love to read year end reviews and prognostications for the coming year. No surprise to anyone cloud computing becomes real makes the list at #8 . I am quoted as predicting that the  issue of integrity of the application and the data will be solved by the big players in the cloud space. One thing my days at IBM taught me is that when the big boys focus on solving the problem, eventually they do. That still leaves the issue of the integrity of the users. The large cloud providers are leaving it to the enterprise to control access, they have to, there is no other effective way to do it.

The MultiFactor Corporation SecureAuth approach to this problem leverages the enterprise investment and expertise in great ID enforcement tools, Active Directory and LDAP. SecureAuth leverages these existing tools to securely control access to the application or resource in the cloud. If you are NOT ready to export your identities to the cloud but want to leverage the cost savings of moving  to the cloud then give us a call, SecureAuth does that and more for hundreds of companies and all for a few dollars per user  per year.

2010 looks like the year that the cloud goes enterprise.