Symplified CTO to Discuss Access Management for Cloud Computing at Open Group Security Conference

Identity Management Expert to Present New Approach for Centralizing Control and
Audit Across Multiple SaaS Applications
BOULDER, Colo.--(Business Wire)--
Symplified, the On-Demand Identity company, today announced that founder and CTO
Darren Platt will present a session on Identity Management in the Clouds at the
Open Group Conference for Security Practitioners in San Diego on February 5. Mr.
Platt was invited to discuss the challenges associated with extending enterprise
security infrastructures to the cloud to centralize access control,
authentication, and audit over Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.

He will present a new model called On-Demand Identity and explain how it works,
including how it integrates with directories, databases, applications, and
negotiates firewalls. Mr. Platt is a recognized expert on identity management,
and co-authored the AuthXML specification, which was the precursor to the SAML
identity federation standard.

Identity Management in Clouds

As organizations turn to Software as a Service as a way to reduce IT costs, they
must address complex security and compliance challenges created when users
access confidential applications and data that reside outside the firewall and
are managed by 3rd party providers. This situation is driving the need for a new
security model.

Fortunately a new approach - On-Demand Identity - has emerged that makes
identity and access management for SaaS achievable for businesses of all sizes.
Mr. Platt will explain how the On-Demand Identity model works, including how
authentication, single sign-on, federation, auditing, compliance and
administration for SaaS can be integrated with behind the firewall security
infrastructures.

"The use of cloud-based applications is creating security and audit challenges
that few organizations anticipated," said Darren Platt, founder and CTO of
Symplified. "I will explain a new approach to managing identity and access for
Software as a Service applications that reside outside the firewall."

Session Details

Mr. Platt will present on Thursday, February 5 at 9:00 AM at the San Diego
Marriott Mission Valley. For conference information please visit:
http://www.opengroup.org/sandiego2009-spc/platt.html.

About The Open Group

The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, which
drives the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow that will enable access to
integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards
and global interoperability. The Open Group works with customers, suppliers,
consortia and other standard bodies. Its role is to capture, understand and
address current and emerging requirements, establish policies and share best
practices; to facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and
integrate specifications and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive
set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and to
operate the industry`s premier certification service. Further information on The
Open Group can be found at: http://www.opengroup.org.

About Symplified

Symplified`s vision is to secure the Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS)
applications by providing On-Demand Identity. The company has developed
SinglePoint -- a massively scalable Internet utility that delivers access
management, authentication, SSO, federation, auditing, compliance and
administration capabilities which integrate network security with the cloud.
Symplified`s founding management team also created Securant, which pioneered the
market for Web access management software and was acquired for $140M by RSA
Security. Venture funding for the company was provided by Granite Ventures and
Allegis Capital. Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colo., with offices in
Palo Alto, Calif. Visit us on the web at www.symplified.com.

Marc Gendron PR
Marc Gendron, 781-237-0341
marc@mgpr.net

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