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Department of Homeland Security to Keynote at Upcoming CSA Annual Congress Program

Press Release Published: 11/02/2012

Experts from DHS, Huawei Technologies, U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, Verizon and Others Join Together for a Powerful Keynote Roundtable to Address Critical Infrastructure, National Security and the Cloud Seattle, WA – November 2, 2012 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced the ad...

Cloud Security Alliance Announces First Annual Ron Knode Service Award Winners

Press Release Published: 11/07/2012

Six Individual CSA Volunteers Selected to Honor the Legacy of Late CSA Member and Volunteer Contributor Ron Knode Orlando, FL - November 7, 2012 –The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced the recipients of its first Ron Knode Service Award, a new annual award sponsored by the CSA reco...

CSA Big Data Working Group Releases Top 10 Big Data Security and Privacy Challenges Report

Press Release Published: 11/07/2012

Group’s First Research Provides Eye Opening Insight into a Wide Diversity of Big Data Challenges Facing Enterprises CSA CONGRESS 2012 – ORLANDO, FL. - November 7, 2012 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Big Data Working Group today issued its first report identifying 10 new and fundament...

Cloud Security Alliance Releases Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Mobile Computing

Press Release Published: 11/08/2012

CSA Mobile Working Group Report Aims to Provide Industry with Mobile Security Best Practices CSA Congress 2012 – ORLANDO, FL – November 8, 2012 –The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today released version 1.0 of the “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Mobile Computing” which provides an...

CSA Seeks Input For Open Peer Review: Privacy Level Agreement Document

Press Release Published: 01/14/2013

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group would like to invite you to review and comment on the Privacy Level Agreement document. The PLA project initiative is creating an outline to be used to achieve compliance with applicable data protection transparency ...

Cloud Security Alliance Summit 2013 at RSA Conference to Emphasize National Security, Mobile and Hybrid Clouds

Press Release Published: 01/16/2013

Mark Weatherford from the Department of Homeland Security Featured as Opening Keynote San Francisco, CA – January 16, 2013 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced the preliminary agenda for its annual CSA Summit 2013 being held at the RSA Conference on Monday, February 25th. Thi...

Cloud Security Alliance Recommends the Cloud Security Readiness Tool

Press Release Published: 01/17/2013

Offers Enterprises a Simple Way to Evaluate IT Potential and Learn how to Adopt Cloud Services Seattle, WA – January 17, 2013 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) recommends the Cloud Security Readiness Tool (CSRT), a free tool from Microsoft designed to help organizations review and understa...

CSA Seeks Input for Open Peer Review: Provider Forensic Support Whitepaper

Press Release Published: 01/23/2013

CSA's Telecom Working Group and Incident Management & Forensics Working Group would like to invite you to review and comment on the Provider Forensic Support in Public Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments whitepaper. This whitepaper will help define the processes for conducting forensic investi...

Call For Speakers for Cloud Security Alliance Congress Asia Pacific

Press Release Published: 01/24/2013

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is pleased to announce this call for speakers to present at the inaugural Cloud Security Alliance Congress Asia Pacific 2013, held in Singapore from 14th to 17th May 2013. The CSA Congresses continue to be the industry’s premier gathering for IT security prof...

CSA Launches Updated TCI Reference Architecture Research Website

Press Release Published: 01/28/2013

The Cloud Security Alliance Trusted Cloud Initiative Working Group has updated its Reference Architecture research website to include simplified architecture definition results, as well as an interactive application that allows users to learn about the applicability of the TCI reference archit...

James D. Robinson, Former American Express Chairman and CEO, Added to CSA Summit Keynote Lineup

Press Release Published: 01/29/2013

Venture Capitalist and Wall Street Legend to Deliver Closing Keynote at Summit at RSA San Francisco, CA – January 29, 2013 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced the addition of James D. Robinson III as the closing keynote speaker at the annual CSA Summit 2013 being held at the R...

CSA Cloud Bytes: HIPAA & The Cloud - A Vendor’s Perspective, Feb. 7 - 12:00pm PST

Press Release Published: 02/05/2013

As part of our mission to educate the industry on all matters related to the cloud, select CSA research working groups have launched a new educational webinar series called CSA Cloud Bytes. This month, the CSA Health Information Management Working Group is proud to host a CSA Cloud Bytes head...

CSA Seeks Input For Open Peer Review: Trusted Cloud Initiative Reference Architecture v2.0

Press Release Published: 02/06/2013

The Cloud Security Alliance's Trusted Cloud Initiative (TCI) would like to invite you to review and comment on the latest version of the reference architecture (v2.0). TCI helps cloud providers develop industry-recommended, secure and interoperable identity, access and compliance management co...

Cloud Security Alliance and Electronic Government Agency (EGA) of Thailand Partner to Drive Cloud Computing Adoption in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Press Release Published: 02/08/2013

Thailand through EGA to adopt CSA Open Certification Framework (STAR) as requirement for Cloud Service Providers in the Country Singapore, February 7, 2013 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced that it has signed a formal partnership with the Electronic Government Agency (EG...

CSA Announces Working Group Sessions at RSA in San Francisco

Press Release Published: 02/12/2013

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Summit 2013 is happening at RSA-US in San Francisco, CA, USA on February 25th, 2013. In addition to our main event, CSA is hosting sessions during the week for some of our active working groups. These are free events that will be held outside of the regular co...

Executive Briefing: US and Foreign Laws Regulating Government Access to Cloud Data on Feb 28, 2013

Press Release Published: 02/21/2013

The Cloud Security Alliance and Box.com are hosting a “by invitation only” executive briefing in San Francisco for users and vendors of cloud services, focusing on Government Access to Data Held in the Cloud, which will take place on Thursday February 28, 2013 from 8am to 11am at the Sir Franc...

CCSK Version 3 English Examination is Now Available

Press Release Published: 02/22/2013

CCSK Version 3 is now online and available at https://ccsk.cloudsecurityalliance.org/. The examination has been updated to include version 3 of our security guidance. According to our beta testers, version 3 offers a much improved test-taking experience. Here are the major changes to be aware ...

CSA Seeks Input For Open Peer Review: CCM v3.0

Article Published: 02/25/2013

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today has released a draft of the latest version of the Cloud Control Matrix, CCM v3.0. This latest revision to the industry standard for cloud computing security controls realigns the CCM control domains to achieve tighter integration with the CSA’s “Security...

CSA Seeks Input For Open Peer Review: Expanded Top Ten Big Data Security and Privacy Challenges Report

Press Release Published: 02/25/2013

Big Data seems to be on the lips of every organization’s CXO these days. By exploiting Big Data, enterprises are able to gain valuable new insights into customer behavior via advanced analytics. However, what often gets lost amidst all the excitement are the very real and many security and pri...

CSA Continues Campaign To Improve Transparency And Assurance In The Cloud Market With Position Paper On AICPA Reporting Framework

Press Release Published: 02/25/2013

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Feb 25, 2013 - The Cloud Security Alliance today released a position paper on the American Institute of CPAs’ reporting framework, as a means of educating its members and providing guidance on selecting the most appropriate reporting option. The position paper is the latest...

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