It is huge, but it's also worth pointing out that this is more than 'cloud security'.
'Cloud security' is commonly meant to refer to the degree of security protocol/procedure/protection that surrounds a cloud-based application, enterprise, network, etc. For instance, when my server is in a room on site at my business, I can lock the door to the room. But when it's an the other side of the world and I'm accessing it via the cloud, how can I ensure it is secure? This is usually what 'cloud security' usually means/refers to.
But what IDDriven Inc. is up to is more than this.
"Identity Access Management" (IAM) is a very large and complicated component of any Enterprise computing system, distributed network, etc. The essential problem/driver is... When there are many systems, subsystems, applications, and so forth, how do we handle the question of who can go where?
And the problem gets deeper still.
If we build these checkpoints, security walls, passwords, and other "IAM" components into the physical infrastructure itself, then what happens when we go to add a system, change a system (for instance upgrade/replace some existent software on the platform), and so forth? Now all of the sudden we have to uproot the entire user access management, or some portion of it, and redesign and reimplement it. That that takes TIME, and MONEY.
What IDDriven is doing is brilliant, i.e. moving this extremely onerous task to the cloud itself. And this means LOW overhead (from an architectural standpoint), as well as utter flexibility (from a change management perspective), and thus, more overall agility with respect to the entire enterprise.
So 'cloud security,' yes. But this is more than securing the cloud. It is rather about harnessing the virtues of the cloud itself to streamline security infrastructure.
Pretty cool.
