Symplified Joins Cloud Security Alliance

Symplified, which bills itself as “The Cloud Security Company,” will be lending their identity and access management expertise to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a non-profit dedicated to developing best practices for providing security assurances in the new cloud frontier. The goal is for Symplified and the CSA to work together and develop practical solutions to real-world cloud security problems.

With this announcement, Symplified is in good company, with the CSA counting cloud leaders like AT&T, Google, Dell, IBM, and Microsoft — and many more — as members. Symplified claims over one million seats have adopted the company’s cloud identity and access management (IAM) trust fabric for the cloud. The company also claims to be the number one provider of identity services for the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform. So it’s fairly obvious why they’re getting a seat at the table.

Here’s what Symplified Founder and CEO Eric Olden had to say on the announcement in a prepared statement:

“We helped establish the web access management market and SAML identity federation standard from the ground up during the Internet’s last inflection point, and are looking to make the same important contributions to cloud security standards. Symplified has been delivering production cloud security solutions since 2007, so we are excited about bringing our years of hands-on experience to the Cloud Security Alliance.”

Symplified itself has garnered a little bit of buzz for itself in 2011 with the announcement that they had raised $9.2 million in venture capital. And the Cloud Security Alliance is trying to find answers to questions that service providers have to address if cloud momentum is going to continue in 2011.

Needless to say, we’ll be keeping a close eye on both Symplified and the Cloud Security Alliance going forward.

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