April 28, 2011 – ObjectSecurity has been awarded a contract by the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to conduct a feasibility analysis under the Feasibility Studies for Digital Services program. The project will explore gaps and solutions for ObjectSecurity’s OpenPMF™ to automate security policies for cloud applications as a service, addressing cloud security—the top barrier to cloud adoption. The study will analyze cloud-specific security challenges, identify gaps in standards and technology, and propose solutions for security and compliance policy automation, aiming for rapid commercialization. OpenPMF™ automates application security management, especially valuable for agile, interconnected environments like SOA and cloud platforms. It translates security and compliance requirements into consistent, low-cost technical policies, allowing proactive control, auditing, and continuous application-layer security monitoring. OpenPMF follows five steps—configure, generate, enforce, audit, and update—and supports the entire application development lifecycle, from policy abstraction to verification.