An Identity Management Survey on Cloud

Copyright © 2014 Ardi BENUSI. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Identity Management has become a very important topic in the cloud computing environments, where cloud providers need to control usernames, passwords and other information used to identify, authenticate and authorize users for many different hosted applications. All the vulnerabilities seen on non-cloud solutions are now seen in the cloud, but other flavors and issues are introduced. One would be the ability to manage identities of users when sending data to the cloud. Second would be the identity management of users receiving data from the cloud. And third would be identity management when data is moved from cloud to cloud. In this paper some of the known identity management systems are investigated together with some known cloud providers and the effort to standardize their proprietary identity solutions using some of the relevant technologies like Securit