Ramss Gallego, a member of ISACA's guidance and practices committee, said: "Cloud computing presents a unique opportunity for enterprises, and is particularly a game-changer for small and medium enterprises, because its availability means that technology infrastructure is not the market differentiator it has been in the past.

"These principles will enable enterprises to experience the value that cloud can provide and help ensure that internal and external users can trust cloud solutions."

In other recent cloud management news Intel has its Cloud SSO (single-sign-on) system as an efficient way for enterprises to provision and de-provision users, and authorise applications and services entirely through a cloud-based service. It will compete with the growing number of cloud-based SSO services from security vendors, including Symantec and Symplified.