Just found an article in NetworkWorld by Carolyn Duffy Marsan that is very interesting. Here is a snippet: "One specific skill related to cloud security that's in demand: SAML. The Security Assertion Markup Language is an emerging standard that allows enterprises to extend their directory, authentication and identity management systems into cloud-based applications.
"You can learn SAML very quickly, and it's incredibly applicable because almost all the [Software-as-a-Service] companies support a SAML interface," Frymier says. "We've implemented a SAML product in the last year and half or so. It allows us to create an interface to an LDAP store like Microsoft Active Directory and in a secure manner expose account information from Active Directory to SaaS applications. We can do account management inside our Active Directory and have that immediately reflected in our SaaS applications."
"You can learn SAML very quickly, and it's incredibly applicable because almost all the [Software-as-a-Service] companies support a SAML interface," Frymier says. "We've implemented a SAML product in the last year and half or so. It allows us to create an interface to an LDAP store like Microsoft Active Directory and in a secure manner expose account information from Active Directory to SaaS applications. We can do account management inside our Active Directory and have that immediately reflected in our SaaS applications."
