* Governance and compliance solution enables internal auditors to reduce the security and compliance risks associated with SaaS adoption.
I hadn’t heard much from Conformity since last year’s conversation with co-founder Scott Bils, so I was glad to get a note last week letting me know that it was about to splash out with a new release. Well, three new releases, actually, but one which is germane to this newsletter.
Conformity’s business is providing an enterprise-class management platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud applications. It is a co-founder of the Enterprise SaaS Working Group and had a major coming out at this week’s Under The Radar conference, an aptly named venue for this quiet company.
While the new SaaS solutions that Conformity announced are designed to help frontline managers and IT operations personnel address the tactical issues and challenges of SaaS adoption, the one for finance and the one for operations are a bit beyond our purview. But the solution for governance and compliance — that’s our bread and butter.
According to PR flackette Laura Beck, Conformity’s new governance and compliance solution enables internal auditors to reduce the security and compliance risks associated with SaaS adoption. The solution enables IT to enforce user access control policies for SaaS and cloud-based applications, and provides centralized compliance reporting in the areas of user access, change and segregation-of-duties required for SOX, HIPAA, PCI and other regulatory mandates and industry standards.
In addition, Conformity has tightened integration with SaaS offerings with no or limited API access (so there’s no way to programmatically hook to them), which can create “management islands” that are difficult, if not impossible, to efficiently manage. With new “registered services” capabilities Conformity customers can now centrally manage and govern users across all of their SaaS and cloud applications.
If you’re into the cloud, or thinking about it, you ought to investigate the Conformity offerings.
In other news I’ve just caught up with Bhold, the Dutch company leading Europe in Enterprise Authorization Management, which has opened an office in the United States. The company is heavily invested in management of Microsoft’s Foresight Identity Manager (FIM) product, in partnership with KPMG and The Oxford Computer Group, so founder Paul Heiden thought it a good idea to open up a branch here. So he did — on Broadway, in Manhattan. Well, it’s got to be more interesting than the company’s HQ in Utrecht ( a nice college town, though). I’ll find out more when I see Paul, either at The Experts Conference later this month or at the European ID Conference early next month. If you won’t be at either conference then be sure to read what’s up with Bhold (and all the other presenting companies) in this newsletter in the weeks following the shows.
