Jay Heiser and David Gootzit from Gartner have just published an excellent report on “Trusted SaaS Offerings for Secure Collaboration“.

The report is really valuable for anyone either building clouds or cloud-related products, or considering to move sensitive data to a SaaS application.

The key areas they look into are:

• List of typical SaaS applications which have high trust requirements.
• Key security features which such applications should possess.
• Transparency measures which cloud computing/SaaS providers need to implement.

Excellent report: short, to the point, and with material you can use while developing or evaluating SaaS application with trust requirements. Get the report here.