Cloud access control is not a new concept. Some companies have been offering it for decades. If this sounds surprising it is because cloud access is nothing more than hosted or managed access control, renamed.
“Cloud access is just terminology — the new buzzword,” says Matthew Ladd, president and COO, The Protection Bureau, Exton, Pa., which started offering managed access control in the late ‘90s. “What has allowed the cloud to become much more valuable — and the concept of having your database and/or programs running elsewhere more acceptable — is browser-based systems.”