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Cloud ComPuting and digital forensiCs
Customers will need to adopt standard identity management practices and inter-
faces as they move toward cloud computing. It is not sustainable to build custom
integrations for each cloud provider. Standards such as Service Provisioning Markup
Language (SPML) are emerging but to date have not been widely accepted due to
complexity and investment requirements. Today, a customer would have to write a
provisioning service for implementation of each cloud provider’s SPML. is results
in a standard method of provisioning but does not reduce the complexity or the num-
ber of interfaces that need to be maintained by the customer and the cloud provider.
A standard provisioning interface such as SPML would provide ...