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CSA Official Press Release

Published 09/29/2020

Registration Open for Cloud Security Alliance EMEA Congress 2020

Registration Open for Cloud Security Alliance EMEA Congress 2020

Virtual event to provide educational, practical advice on core topics critical to cloud ecosystem

SEATTLE – Sept. 29, 2020 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, has opened registration for its EMEA Congress 2020 (Nov. 3-5). The free, virtual event will focus on core topics critical to the cloud ecosystem and offer attendees the opportunity to earn up to six continuing professional education (CPE) credits while gleaning educational and practice advice from some of the cloud’s top business and thought leaders.

“The pandemic has organizations accelerating their migration to the cloud, recognizing it as the optimal strategy to support a virtual workforce and enable digital transformation. From the growing complexity of cloud certification to navigating continuous assurance and compliance, from the European Cloud and GDPR to GAIA-X, security professionals have a tremendous need for cloud security education from trusted experts,” said Linda Strick, Managing Director, CSA EMEA.

The event will be broken into three tracks:

Day 1: Attendees will learn to improve their organization’s cloud governance and risk and compliance posture, in addition to promoting transparency and continuous compliance with: CSA’s Perspective on Cloud Risk Management; The Correlation Between Security Ratings and Breach Likelihood - A Study of 2020 Breaches; GAIA-X: Current Status and Outlook - What to Expect and How to Engage; Cloud Security Post-COVID-19, Where to Go Next; Using OPA for Continuous Compliance with Cloud Infrastructure Policy-as-Code.

Day 2: Modernization of one's approach to the cloud is the day’s focus. Attendees will learn how to improve their architecture, implement automations, and prepare for emerging technologies with: Get Quantum Safe; Shared Responsibility: Someone Else’s Problem; STAR Future Roadmap; Unveiling the Wonder of Automated Vulnerability Management in the Cloud; A Reference Architecture to Modernize Your Approach to Cloud.

Day 3: Participants will discover how to navigate the cloud for third-party risk, Zero Trust and Fog computing, and preview the first cloud auditing credential on the final day: Cloud Control Matrix v4; A How-to Guide: Navigating the Top 7 Trends in Third-Party Risk Management; Securing the Low-Lying Clouds; Zero Trust: The Key to Your IAM Success; Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge (CCAK).

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About Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products. CSA’s activities, knowledge and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and the assurance industry — and provide a forum through which diverse parties can work together to create and maintain a trusted cloud ecosystem. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

Contact
Kari Walker for the CSA
ZAG Communications
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About Cloud Security Alliance

The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

For press inquiries, email Zenobia Godschalk of ZAG Communications or reach her by phone at 650.269.8315.