Chapter Awards
2021 Chapter Award Winners
Washington DC Metro Area Chapter
In 2021, the CSA Washington DC Metro Area Chapter published two research whitepapers: Earning Trust in the 21st Century, and Toward a Zero Trust Architecture.
Their Zero Trust Architecture paper was a position paper supporting President Biden’s Executive Order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity.
They held an in-person CSA Federal Summit event in October, with over 200 attendees. They also were able to host over 12 monthly webinars that were well attended and on-topic. Congratulations on a successful year! Way to go, DC Chapter!
Italy Chapter
The CSA Italy Chapter had a stellar 2021, helping to influence national policy in adoption of the CSA STAR Level 2 requirements for cloud companies operating within Italy.
They took the CSA CxO global initiative and organized an in-person regional event in November of 2021, which was very successful.
In addition, they helped bring in over 10 new SaaS corporate members to CSA. Outstanding work, Italy Chapter!
Japan Chapter
The CSA Japan Chapter enjoys a chapter membership of over 200 individuals and over 35 corporations. They have translated several documents into Japanese in 2021, such as:
- State of Cloud Security Risk, Compliance, and Misconfigurations
- STAR Level 1: Security Questionnaire (CAIQ v4)
- Cloud Threat Modeling
- CCM & CAIQ v4
- Cloud Incident Response Framework
- IoT Security Controls Framework Version 2
- Key Management when using Cloud Services
- The 12 Most Critical Risks for Serverless Applications
These translations make CSA research artifacts widely available to Japanese speakers, improving cloud security awareness in Japan. Currently, the CSA Japan Chapter is working on mapping/reverse-mapping between the Japanese government’s Information System Security Management and Assessment Program (ISMAP) and the CCM.
In addition, the chapter has been successfully organizing a summit and congress event every year since its inception with an average of around 500 participants.
2020 Chapter Volunteer Award Recipients
Matt Nelson, West Michigan Chapter
With the help from his Chapter, Matt spearheaded an almost year-long campaign to raise money for local charities in need and COVID front-line workers, raising over $50k. He also hosted a two-day CloudCon virtual event in August that was sold out. Finally, Matt helped promote and drive engagement to a Women in Tech organization, Bridges in Tech, which helps to provide mentoring and promote the hiring and education of women and minorities.
Matt is the Senior Client Solutions Advisor at Optiv and President of the Cloud Security Alliance West Michigan Chapter.
When he’s not sitting behind a computer, working with customers or giving presentations you can find him enjoying nature in beautiful west Michigan, either fishing on a river, hiking on a trail, boating on a lake, barbecuing on his grill, or taking his kids to one of their many activities.
Victor Monga, LA/SoCal Chapter
With the help of his Chapter, Victor helped create a CCSK study group, which met once a week for 6 weeks, covering the 6 domains of the CCSK online training course. There were 42 participants who registered for this weekly study group, and they made recordings and slides of each meeting available on the CSA LA/SoCal Chapter YouTube channel. In addition, 30 complimentary CCSK self-paced training course licenses were provided to individuals who lost employment due to COVID-19. Earning the CCSK certificate has helped members gain a thorough understanding of cloud security best practices and given them the ability to answer specific cloud security questions during job interviews.
Also, Victor has a been a regular contributor to the Chapter Leadership Meetings, providing insight and best practices on community organization and development, offering to mentor those Chapters that are just starting out or are less mature.
Victor is Ambassador to the Office of the CTO for VMWare, Vice Chairman Of The Board at Virtually Testing, and President of the Cloud Security Alliance LA/SoCal Chapter.
Olivier Caleff, France Chapter
Olivier has been instrumental in engaging the entire CSA EMEA community with the CSA CIRCLE platform. He has embraced the CIRCLE platform, created a newsletter, and posts discussion topics to various communities each week. In addition to embracing and engaging with CIRCLE, Olivier continues to be a guiding force in promoting CSA and cloud security best practices in France and Switzerland. Olivier has been a contributor to CSA research by actively working to translate many of the CSA white papers into French, helping to increase their outreach and value in French speaking countries around the globe.
Olivier is a Cyber-Sesilience and CSIRT Security Expert at Sanofi, a member of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) Informal Expert Group, and the Co-Chair of the Cloud Security Alliance French Chapter.
Faisal Yahya, Indonesia Chapter
As the Chairman, CSA Indonesia Chapter, Faisal revived and reset the Chapter with new leadership. He helped to organize the second CSA Indonesia Summit in 2020 and also brought key industry players as speakers and secured two sponsors. To help IT and security professionals upgrade their skill sets in cloud security, he brought in two authorized Indonesia-based CCSK training partners.
Faisal has two decades of progressive leadership experience in Cyber Security and Enterprise Architecture. He plays an integral role in spearheading all Cloud Security, IT Infosec Strategy, Security Technology Roadmaps, Cyber Security Architecture, Incident Response Team, and Red/Blue Teaming (cross-functional team leadership – Purple teaming). Proven role model, Virtual CISO, and an engineering mentor, including university post-graduate lecturer.
Faisal engaged with the Asian IT communities by actively researching, speaking at public conferences, and advocating for better Cybersecurity. Experience in white paper development, technical presentations to clients, and technical writing. He is passionate about applying the latest technology securely and efficiently.
YuJin Won
A member of the CSA Korea Chapter, YuJin single-handed translated the CSA artifact on "Cloud Penetration Testing Playbook" from English into the Korean language. The document was published April 2021. Download Document