Symplified Hosts Webinar featuring Independent Research Firm on State of Cloud Security at the Five Year Mark

Darren Platt is co-founder and CTO of Symplified, the Cloud Identity Company. He is a thought leader on identity management research, and co-authored the AuthXML specification which was combined with Netegrity's S2ML to create Oasis' SAML standard. Earlier Mr. Platt was vice president of engineering at Web access management market originator Securant Technologies, where he managed development of the ClearTrust product until its acquisition by RSA Security in 2001.

WHAT: The adoption of cloud computing has exploded since its introduction some five years ago, nevertheless significant barriers on the whole remain. Many organizations struggle with security and privacy concerns; others lack understanding and direction as to what is to tell the truth required to ensure identity and access management across enterprise, cloud and mobile applications. API management, the network security stack, and data security as well pose challenges for short-staffed IT departments. This webinar, featuring Forrester Technology's Chenxi Wang and Symplified's Darren Platt, will focus on the state of cloud security in 2012. Attendees will learn:

Symplified provides seamless identity and access management across cloud, web and mobile apps used by employees, partners and clients. The company protects more than 3.8 million identities for clients in the healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and telecommunications industries. Its Symplified service unifies access management, federated single sign-on, auditing and user management across any access device. Symplified can be delivered using an on-premises managed appliance or via the Symplified Trust Cloud™ which is hosted on the global, massively scalable Amazon Web Services platform. The company has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal, CRN, Network World, the RSA conference, and others for its innovations. Symplified's management team created web access management market originator Securant and the ClearTrust product, which was acquired by RSA Security. The company has received financing from leading venture capital firms Granite Ventures and Allegis Capital. Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colo., with offices in Mountain View, Calif. Visit us on the web at www.symplified.com.