Introducing CAIQ-Lite
Blog Published: 03/01/2019
By Dave Christiansen, Marketing Director, WhisticThe Cloud Security Alliance and Whistic are pleased to release CAIQ-Lite beta, a new framework for cloud vendor assessment.CSA and Whistic identified the need for a lighter-weight assessment questionnaire in order to accommodate the shift to cloud ...
CSA and Whistic Unveil Streamlined Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ)
Press Release Published: 03/01/2019
Beta release of CAIQ-Lite, based on Whistic and CSA research, available for community reviewSeattle – March 1, 2019 –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 environme...
Five Years of the GitHub Bug Bounty Program
Blog Published: 02/28/2019
By Philip Turnbull, Senior Application Security Engineer, GitHubThis article was originally published by the GitHub team.GitHub launched our Security Bug Bounty program in 2014, allowing us to reward independent security researchers for their help in keeping GitHub users secure. Over the past fiv...
Bitglass Security Spotlight: DoD, Facebook & NASA
Blog Published: 02/25/2019
By Will Houcheime, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassHere are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: —Cybersecurity vulnerabilities found in US missile system—Facebook shares private user data with Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify—Personal information of NASA employees exposed—Chinese nation...
Rocks, Pebbles, Shadow IT
Blog Published: 02/19/2019
By Rich Campagna, Chief Marketing Officer, Bitglass Way back in 2013/14, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) were first deployed to identify Shadow IT, or unsanctioned cloud applications. At the time, the prevailing mindset amongst security professionals was that cloud was bad, and discovering ...
Rethinking Security for Public Cloud
Blog Published: 02/13/2019
Symantec’s Raj Patel highlights how organizations should be retooling security postures to support a modern cloud environmentBy Beth Stackpole, Writer, SymantecEnterprises have come a long way with cyber security, embracing robust enterprise security platforms and elevating security roles and bes...
Security Spotlight: Financial Services Facing Cyberattacks
Blog Published: 02/12/2019
By Will Houcheime, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassHere are the top cybersecurity stories of recent months:—Customer information exposed in Bankers Life hack—American Express India leaves customers defenseless—Online HSBC accounts breached—Millions of dollars taken from major Pakistani banks—U...
The 12 Most Critical Risks for Serverless Applications
Blog Published: 02/11/2019
By Sean Heide, CSA Research Analyst and Ory Segal, Israel Chapter Board MemberWhen building the idea and thought process around implementing a serverless structure for your company, there are a few key risks one must take into account to ensure the architecture is gathering proper controls when s...
Deciphering DevSecOps
Blog Published: 02/07/2019
Security needs to be an integral part of the DevOps roadmap. Enterprise Strategy Group’s Doug Cahill shows the way By Beth Stackpole, Writer, SymantecSecurity has moved to the forefront of the IT agenda as organizations push forward with digital transformation initiatives. At the same time, Dev...
Bitglass Security Spotlight: Breaches Expose Millions of Emails, Texts, and Call Logs
Blog Published: 02/05/2019
By Will Houcheime, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassHere are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: —773 million email accounts published on hacking forum— Unprotected FBI data and Social Security numbers found online — Millions of texts and call logs exposed on unlocked server—South Ko...
Security Risks and Continuous Development Drive Push for DevSecOps
Blog Published: 01/31/2019
How the need to speed application creation and subsequent iterations has catalyzed the adoption of the DevOps philosophyBy Dwight B. Davis, Writer, SymantecThe sharp rise in cyber security attacks and damaging breaches in recent years has driven a new mantra among both application developers and ...
CCSK Success Stories: From the Financial Sector
Blog Published: 01/24/2019
By the CSA Education TeamThis is the second part in a blog series on Cloud Security Training. Today we will be interviewing an infosecurity professional working in the financial sector. John C Checco is President Emeritus for the New York Metro InfraGard Members Alliance, as well as an Informatio...
Cloud Security Alliance Celebrates 10th Anniversary at CSA Summit at RSA Conference 2019
Press Release Published: 01/24/2019
IBM, Starbucks, Turner CISOs to Give Keynote Addresses SEATTLE – RSA CONFERENCE 2019 - Jan. 24, 2019 –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, today anno...
CCM Addenda Updates for Two Additional Standards
Blog Published: 01/21/2019
By the CSA CCM Working GroupWe're happy to announce the publication of the updated Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) Addenda for the following standards: — German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue (C5) — ISO/IEC 27002, ISO/IEC 27017 and ISO/IEC ...
New Cloud Security Alliance Study Finds Cybersecurity Incidents and Misconceptions Both Increase as Critical ERP Systems Migrate to Clouds
Press Release Published: 01/14/2019
Seattle, WA – January 11, 2019 – 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 environment, today released the findings from the first research survey on “Enterprise Re...
Cloud Security Alliance, National Technology Security Coalition Release “Streamlining Vendor IT Security and Risk Assessments” Whitepaper
Press Release Published: 12/20/2018
Report advocates for a new approach to how organizations manage risks, achieve assurance, and enable trust in the cloudSEATTLE – Dec. 20, 2018 –The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure...
Addressing the Skills Gap in Cloud Security Professionals
Blog Published: 12/17/2018
One of the math lessons that has always stuck with me from childhood is that if you took a penny and doubled it every day for a month, it would make you a millionaire. In fact, it wouldn’t even take the whole month, you would be a millionaire on the 28th day. Of course, most of us realize this w...
Cloud Security Alliance Announces 2018 Ron Knode Service Award Recipients
Press Release Published: 12/11/2018
Volunteers recognized for dedication, efforts to furthering cloud security best practicesORLANDO – Dec. 11, 2018 –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,...
Cloud Security Alliance to Develop Holistic Cloud Incident Response Whitepaper
Press Release Published: 12/11/2018
Singapore – 11 December, 2018 – 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, will be developing a holistic Cloud Incident Response Whitepaper. The framework wi...
Keeping Your Boat Afloat with a Cloud Access Security Broker
Blog Published: 12/07/2018
By Prasidh Srikanth, Senior Product Manager, BitglassIf you were on a sinking ship that was full of holes of various sizes, which ones would you patch first? Probably the big ones. Now, consider this: As an enterprise, you’ve been successfully sailing and securing your corporate data on premises ...
