AUTHENTICATION IN the CLOUD
Outline
Security Problem Selected
Businesses and cloud
Cloud models and Issues
The difference
Cloud Authentication issues
Authentication issues – contd
Survey on Cloud computing
References

Businesses and cloud

Business requirements: Netflix, Adobe connect, Expense reporting, Timesheet, Payroll systems
Support customers with multiple devices accessing their system
Moving existing applications out of the datacenter and into virtual private and fully public clouds.
Fully embracing virtual datacenters, which means consolidating physical datacenters, and (if the company’s large enough) forming a private cloud.
Outsourcing applications. There’s SaaS applications like Workday, ADP, Concur, and SalesForce.com that have replaced functions that used to run in the datacenter, and then there’s also custom apps for data that’s proprietary, sensitive or regulated, which many people are running in a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) extension.