Symplified, a cloud security company has announced a new user provisioning addition to its SinglePoint Cloud security platform which enables organizations to centralize the management of user accounts for multiple cloud applications from within their firewall or by using the Salesforce.com (News - Alert) platform.


SinglePoint Cloud Identity Manager integrates with enterprise user directories to automate the creation, provisioning, modification, and de-provisioning of accounts that enable employees to access Cloud-based Software as a Service or SaaS (News - Alert) applications and data. Using the Manager organizations can seamlessly extend, enforce and revoke security permissions to cloud resources based on the information present in the IT infrastructure.

“User management and provisioning, which was a complex problem to solve inside the enterprise, presents an even more daunting challenge with the introduction of one or more cloud applications,” said Bob Blakley, vice president and research director for industry research firm the Burton Group.

“Ideally what’s needed are solutions that can bridge the divide between the cloud and existing enterprise provisioning infrastructures, not a complete re-invention and duplication of what’s been deployed inside the firewall. Managing user identity is essential for scalable adoption of the cloud,” Blakley said.

SinglePoint Cloud Identity Manager is effective in automating and centralizing complex workflows when users and their access privileges are added or removed from directories. This is achieved by bringing applications under the control of “inside the firewall” and Cloud-based user provisioning and management systems.


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Edited by Stefania Viscusi