I’ve been there and asked that question. When I was a state IT manager, knowing that service account password was just part of keeping things running on a day to day basis. My team knew it and members of our security and server teams knew it.

“The Cloud” is changing business in many ways. This discussion is mostly targeting B2B and B2C applications and how cloud and SaaS offerings are affecting access control and security.

Cloud and SaaS offerings affect businesses in the reduced…