Cloud Security Alliance: Insider Threat Survey
Press Release Published: 03/18/2015
The Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Data Governance Group is running a very short survey to better understand insider threat vectors and mitigating strategies for public cloud. I would be most appreciative if you could spend a few minutes taking the survey – there are 12 questions in total. Your ...
Cloud Security Alliance Announces New Federal Summit Event
Press Release Published: 03/17/2015
Stellar Program to Feature Leaders from FedRAMP and NIST Providing Key Insights into Security Compliance, Architecture, Technology and Defending the Latest Threats Washington, DC – March 17, 2015 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced a brand new conference to be hosted on May 5, 20...
2015 Bitglass Cloud Security Report : Security Still Cloud's Achilles Heel
Blog Published: 03/12/2015
By Christopher Hines, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassThe cloud. Companies want it, but can they secure it? Moving to cloud applications like Salesforce, Office 365 and Box, can be beneficial for business but companies must first answer the question of security. Today we announced the findings...
A Few Lessons from Recent Adware Insecurities
Blog Published: 03/11/2015
<strong>Recent adware has made significant waves in some information security </strong><strong>circles for its security vulnerabilities and </strong><strong>for its potential larger </strong><strong>impact on one of the essential systems of trust that Int...
24 Hours After FREAK, 766 Cloud Providers Still Vulnerable
Blog Published: 03/06/2015
The Average Company Uses 122 FREAK-vulnerable servicesBy Sekhar Sarukkai, Co-founder and VP of Engineering, Skyhigh NetworksThis week a group of researchers at INRA, Microsoft Reseach, and IMDEA discovered a widespread vulnerability in OpenSSL that has rendered millions of Apple and Android devic...
What Does Customer Managed Encryption Keys Really Mean for Cloud Service Providers?
Blog Published: 03/06/2015
By Todd Partridge, Director of Strategy, IntralinksHave you ever leased a safety deposit box from your bank? For years the security and privacy of a safe deposit box has been the standard in the physical world. People have put their most important and their most valued information in bank vaults ...
Cloud Security Alliance New Survey Finds Financial Firms are in Search of a Cloud Strategy
Press Release Published: 03/05/2015
Hybrid Cloud Adoption is Preferred; Control and Security of Data is Top Concern Seattle, WA –March 5, 2015 - Many financial firms are slowly putting more stock in the cloud. That’s a key finding from a new Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) survey, titled How Cloud is Being Used in the Financial Sect...
Cloud Security Alliance Announces Release of Security Framework for Governmental Clouds
Press Release Published: 03/02/2015
Report jointly developed by CSA, ENISA and TU Darmstadt Provides Step-by-Step Approach for the Procurement and Secure Use of Cloud Services Edinburgh, UK – March 2, 2015 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), announces the release of a new report aimed at providing guidance to European Member Stat...
Why Companies Must Adopt the ‘Assume Mentality’ When It Comes to Breaches
Blog Published: 02/27/2015
By Christopher Hines, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassRecently Target announced that the credit card data breach that they suffered back in 2013 ended up costing them $162M. Now, I know some may argue that to a company like Target, that number is a drop in the bucket, and you’re right. But the...
The International Association of Privacy Professionals and Cloud Security Alliance Announce Privacy. Security. Risk. 2015 Conference and Call for Speaker Proposals
Press Release Published: 02/24/2015
The IAPP’s Privacy Academy and CSA Congress present P.S.R., two conferences with one powerhouse program to connect privacy and security professionals Portsmouth, NH – February 23, 2015 – The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the largest organization of privacy profession...
GAPERTISE JOINS CLOUD SECURITY ALLIANCE AS EXECUTIVE MEMBER
Press Release Published: 02/24/2015
Mobile Application Testing Firm Partners with CSA to Collaborate on Research for Next Generation Mobile Application Testing and Assurance Singapore – February 24, 2015 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for provi...
The Dark Side of the Web: 14 Essential Cloud Usage Facts Every CISO Should Know
Blog Published: 02/12/2015
By Kamal Shah, Vice President, Products and Marketing, SkyHigh NetworksBetween frequent headlines on data breaches and the growth of Shadow IT, it is easy to be captivated with what people are saying, blogging, and tweeting about the state of cloud adoption and security. But the fact is – it’s ha...
Volunteer Spotlight: Dr. Said Tabet
Press Release Published: 02/12/2015
Dr. Said Tabet is a Senior Technologist and Industry Standards Strategist in the Corporate Office of the CTO at EMC. Said is a member of the Object Management Group Board of Directors and the principal EMC representative to the Industrial Internet Consortium. Said is Chair of the INCITS CS1 Secu...
Anthem’s Breach and the Ubiquity of Compromised Credentials
Blog Published: 02/09/2015
By Sekhar Sarukkai, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Skyhigh NetworksThe year is still young, and we’ve already witnessed a breach of potentially historic proportions. Anthem Inc, the nation’s second largest health insurer, released a statement last week announcing the breach of a database with ...
What The Anthem Breach Means For Healthcare Security
Blog Published: 02/06/2015
By Christopher Hines, Product Marketing Manager, Bitglass"Healthcare orgs oh how we love you so, with your data so un secured no wonder we give it a go. SSNs, birthdays and addresses information galore, we can’t wait until next year when we steal some more.”This is the song that healthcare data t...
Cutting Out The Security Blind Spots
Blog Published: 01/30/2015
By Chris Hines, Product Marketing Manager, Bitglass When Henry Ford’s Model T was introduced to the world in 1908, with a list price of $850, it revolutionized transportation for the masses at the time. What many folks don’t know is that it had absolutely no mirrors attached to it. Early dri...
Limit The Damage
Blog Published: 01/23/2015
By Chris Hines, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassDespite investments in security, breaches are still occurring at an alarming rate. Whether the result of the world’s nefarious cyber criminals sending phishing or malware attacks through company emails, or insiders simply misusing sensitive data....
The Truth About Encryption
Blog Published: 01/20/2015
By Christopher Hines, Product Marketing Manager, Bitglass“Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into another form, called ciphertext, which cannot be easily understood by anyone except authorized parties.” – TechTargetEncryption has gotten some much-needed attention over the past few w...
EY helps Ribose Make History with First Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR Attestation
Press Release Published: 01/14/2015
Cloud Industry’s First Third Party Assessment Based Upon Joint CSA & AICPA Guidelines Seattle, WA – January, 14 2015 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced that global professional services organization, Ernst & Young (EY), has helped Ribose become the first company wo...
CSA Survey: Security of Cloud Data Now a Board-Level Concern
Blog Published: 01/12/2015
Security and Skills Gap Hold Back Cloud Projects While Shadow IT GrowsBy Cameron Coles, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, SkyhighA recent Cloud Security Alliance & Skyhigh survey shows that while security and skills gaps remain significant barriers to corporate-sanctioned cloud projects, end use...
