[HIB]Novell rolls cloud-security service

The cloud lifts Tuesday on Novell's Cloud Security Service, which is software designed so that hosting and cloud-service providers can offer authentication, authorization, provisioning and de-provisioning services to their enterprise customers.The Novell Cloud Security Service software is intended to be used inside a provider's data infrastructure to enable the equivalent of a single-sign-on function to multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) options that enterprise customers want to use so they can easily provision and de-provision employees. To make the Novell Cloud Security Service work, the enterprise would need to install a server software component, said to be less than 100MB, on their own premises, to communicate back to the hosting provider.That on-premises component becomes the central point for enabling control over password-based authentication, and the provisioning of SaaS services and the immediate de-provisioning of them when it's determined an employee's use of SaaS should be terminated. Novell has been at work on the cloud-security project, which makes use of open protocols such as SAML, for over a year.

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