Cloud security provider Symplified (www.symplified.com) announced last week it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (www.cloudsecurityalliance.org), a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing.

The move comes a couple weeks after Symplified's partnership with open source cloud computing provider Cloud.com, which combines Symplified and Cloud.com CloudStack to enable users to deliver identity and access management security and integration capabilities.

The organization provides education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.