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California Consumer Privacy Act – 10 Things You Should Know

Blog Published: 03/12/2020

By Francoise Gilbert, Data & Privacy Expert, DataMinding.comThis blog originally appeared on Francoise Gilbert's blog here, read more updates around privacy by going to here website DataMinding.com.Based on personal observation and press reports, it is clear that only a small percentage of bu...

Newest Cloud Security Alliance Paper Sheds Light on Best Practices for Managing Risks Associated with Cloud-Connected Medical Devices

Press Release Published: 03/12/2020

Paper provides key stakeholders with guidelines to procuring, securing medical devices to ensure vulnerabilities are mitigatedSEATTLE – March 12, 2020 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure...

CSA’s Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Is Now an Accepted Ohio TechCred® Credential

Press Release Published: 03/11/2020

Ohio program allows employers to upskill their employees’ cloud security knowledge, build a stronger, tech-savvy workforceSEATTLE – March 11, 2020 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a s...

CSA’s Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge Named Winner in 16th Annual Info Security PG’s 2020 Global Excellence Awards®

Press Release Published: 03/09/2020

Industry’s leading cloud certification program earned GoldSEATTLE – March 9, 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, announced today that Info Secu...

RSA Conference 2020: Focusing on Human-Centric Security

Blog Published: 03/06/2020

By Salah Nassar, VP of Marketing at CipherCloudWithout a doubt, the top focus at the RSA Conference 2020 was human/people-centric security. This year’s conference messaging focused on the Human Element – which makes perfect sense. We are in a time of cloud mobile digital transformation, in which ...

CSA Summit at RSA 2020 - Recap Part 2

Blog Published: 03/03/2020

By Frank Guanco, Research Program Manager, CSARead part two of the CSA Summit at RSA recap. In this post we’ll be exploring the big ideas and takeaways from the afternoon sessions. Several main questions and ideas our afternoon speakers addressed were:How are enterprises supposed to prepare for i...

CSA Summit at RSA 2020 - Recap Part 1

Blog Published: 03/02/2020

By Frank Guanco, Research Program Manager, CSACSA was excited to welcome a diverse group of speakers to discuss cloud security and privacy during this year’s CSA Summit at RSA Conference 2020. We heard from Glenn Gerstell, Alex Stamos, Phil Venables, Dan Geer and many others. Our speakers address...

​Get a grip on data in Box and beyond - for compliance sake.

Blog Published: 02/27/2020

By: Salah Nassar, Vice President of Marketing, CipherCloudHow it all startedWe all love Box. Box makes cloud collaboration better and is a key business consideration for organizations to begin their journey into cloud adoption on the ever-expanding digital transformation initiatives. In fact, man...

How CSA is Working to Address Privacy

Blog Published: 02/25/2020

By John DiMaria, Assurance Investigatory Fellow, CSAThe European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published an infographic on compliance and enforcement of the GDPR from May 2018 to January 2019. It shows that 95,180 complaints have been made to EU national data protection authorities by individuals ...

The Knowledge Gap, Risk of the Unknown & the Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge

Blog Published: 02/24/2020

By Daniele Catteddu, Chief Technology Officer, CSAI have a business admin academic background and so I have always approached cybersecurity risk management using those lenses. The more I have looked at the issues in cybersecurity, the more I am convinced that if you want to manage your risk, you ...

CSA Continues to Drive Leadership in Cloud Security with New Research

Press Release Published: 02/24/2020

Latest initiatives serve to steer enterprises on a successful cloud migration journeySAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 24, 2020 – RSA CONFERENCE 2020 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure...

Cloud Security Alliance Opens the Call for Papers for SECtember

Press Release Published: 02/24/2020

Registration for leading cloud-security event opens March 16SAN FRANCISCO – FEB. 24, 2020 – RSA CONFERENCE 2020 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environm...

Cloud Security Alliance 2020 Initiatives Changing the Face of IT Audit and Cloud Assurance

Press Release Published: 02/24/2020

Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge and Cloud Controls Matrix v4 represent critical progress to modernize the audit profession and align cloud assurance with technology innovationsSAN FRANCISCO – FEB. 24, 2020 – RSA CONFERENCE – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organizat...

Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) to Develop Policy as Code for Cloud Infrastructure

Blog Published: 02/21/2020

By Becki Lee, Senior Technical writer at Fugue, Inc Originally published as: Interactively Debugging the Rego Policy Language with Frego Policy as code is an effective way to uniformly define, maintain, and enforce security and compliance standards in the cloud. Treating policy like code means ta...

Proposed Principles for Artificial Intelligence Published by the White House

Blog Published: 02/19/2020

By Francoise Gilbert, Data & Privacy Expert, DataMinding.comThis blog originally appeared on Francoise Gilbert's blog here, read more updates around privacy by going to here website DataMinding.com.A draft memorandum outlining a proposed Guidance on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Appli...

Cloud Security Challenges in 2020

Blog Published: 02/18/2020

By Ashwin Chaudhary, Chief Executive Officer, Accedere Inc.The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17% in 2020 to total $266.4 billion, up from $227.8 billion in 2019 according to Gartner. As the cloud continues to be more and more heavily adopted, it’s important to be awa...

Glenn Gerstell to Share Perspective on What the Digital Revolution Holds in Store for Business at CSA Federal Summit 2020

Press Release Published: 02/13/2020

How will private business fare under increased regulations brought on by the electronic era?SEATTLE – Feb. 13, 2020 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing env...

Using SOC Reports for Cloud Security and Privacy

Blog Published: 02/10/2020

By Ashwin Chaudhary, Chief Executive Officer, Accedere Inc Data security and privacy are increasingly challenging in today’s cloud-based environments. Many organizations are storing a significant amount of data in distributed and hybrid cloud and even unmanaged environments, increasing challenge...

CCPA – Introduction, Applicability and Recommendations

Blog Published: 02/06/2020

By Neeraj Nayak, Senior Manager at Cipher Cloud.What is the CCPA and what is its applicability to businesses?The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018 is a broadly applicable and wide-ranging privacy law that will come into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA applies to any business that...

Securing data and maintaining compliance in ServiceNow

Blog Published: 01/27/2020

By Neeraj Nayak, Senior Manager, CipherCloud2019 was one of the worst and shocking years in cybersecurity. Worst because of the scale of data exposure - 5183 breaches, exposing 7.9 billion records in just the first nine months of 2019 [1]. Shocking because of the post-mortem reports - most of the...

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