Analyzing Authentication Patterns for Cloud Services

Cloud services are very popular among enterprises; most businesses use multiple cloud services. At the same time, some enterprises acquire, merge, and partner with other companies. It is at that point where one party will need to access the other party?s resources in the cloud as well as its private cloud services. Due to these complex connections, cloud services must deal with different authentication protocols, multiple heterogeneous user stores, and legacy identity systems. As a result, implementing authentication in the cloud has become riskier and more complex.