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OASIS, the standards consortium, has formed a new group to address the security challenges posed by identity management in cloud computing.

The new OASIS Identity in the Cloud (IDCloud) Technical Committee is supposed to identify gaps in existing identity management standards and investigate the need for profiles to achieve interoperability in current standards.

Committee members will do the risk and threat analyses on collected use cases and produce guidelines for mitigating vulnerabilities.

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The 451 Group anticipates that the IDCloud profiles that result will enable a consistent set of policies that do the job of encapsulating business logic across multiple domains.

Committee members include Alfresco, CA, Capgemini, Cisco, Cognizant, Boeing, eBay, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, Red Hat, SafeNet, SAP, Skyworth TTG, Symantec, Vanguard and VeriSign with othes expected to join. Microsoft and Red Hat are co-chairing the effort.

The idea is to extend the foundational security standards such as XACML, SAML, WS-Security and WS-Trust that were developed at OASIS in the first place.