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Argentina Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Argentina
Areas of Interest: Legal and Regulatory (Government in The Cloud), Incident Response, Notification and Remediation, and Traditional Security, BCP & DRP
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/argentina/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3350613
Organizer: Leonardo Federico Rosso and Luciano Moreira da Cruz

Atlanta Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: City of Atlanta
Areas of Interest: CSP Maturity Model and Contractual Guidance
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3664160
Organizer: Dave Shackleford

Auckland

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: City of Auckland
Organizer: We're in the midst of refreshing the leadership of this chapter.

Austin Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: City of Austin
Areas of Interest: Cloud computing architecture.
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4160330
Organizer: Glen Roberts

Australia and New Zealand Regional Coordinating Body

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Australia and New Zealand
Areas of Interest: Virtualisation; Local Legal, Jurisdiction, and Privacy; Identity Management; Standards, Compliance, and Audit; and Security as a Service.
Organizer: We're in the midst of refreshing the leadership of this chapter.

Bangalore Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: City of Bangalore
Areas of Interest: Mobility, Cloud Solutions
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3300578
Organizer: Sandip Kumar Panda

Bangladesh Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Bangladesh
LinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8418567
Organizer: Amanul Islam

Beijing Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: City of Beijing
Organizer: Liu Shengquan, Peng Jie

Belgium & Luxemburg Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
LinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=8108690
Organizer: Ulrich Seldeslachts

Boston Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: City of Boston
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3772057
Organizer: Trevor Failor and Jason Garbis

Brazilian Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Brazil
Areas of Interest: Development of an educational guide to new cloud customers, Portuguese translations of CSA research
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/brazil/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3079437
Organizer: Leonardo Goldim

Canada Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Canada
Areas of Interest: Advocating Cloud Security standards and best practices to Canadian industry
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/canada/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3736394
Organizer: Matt Hoerig

Caribbean Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Countries of the Caribbean
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3811215
Organizer: Roland Kissoon

Carolinas Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: North Carolina and South Carolina
Areas of Interest: Identity and Access Management, and incident Response, Notification, and Remediation
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4069814
Organizer: Ali Alwan

Central America Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Central America Region
Areas of Interest: Risk Analysis Guidelines
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3772060
Organizer: Jorge Higueros

Central Florida Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Orlando, Daytona, and Spacecoast
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/centralflorida/
Organizer: Lee V. Mangold
Co-organizer: Tony Turner

Chennai Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: City of Chennai
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3139479
Organizer: Anuradha Shyam

Chicago Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: City of Chicago
Areas of Interest: Identity Management; Provider Assessments; and Legal
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3755674
Organizer: Scott Clark

Chile Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Chile
Areas of Interest: Promote CCSK certification and Star Self Assessment, and research about the real use of the cloud in Chile
LinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3350633
Organizer: Ricardo Urbina M.

Colombia Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Colombia
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3350616
Organizer: Juan Carlos Alvarez

Colorado Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4757812
Organizer: Marshall England

Dalian Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Dalian
Organizer: Jeff Wang

Delaware Valley Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Cities along the Delaware River
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3711544
Organizer: David Lingenfelter

Denmark Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Denmark
Areas of Interest: Cloud Controls Matrix, Cloud Data Centre Security, Consensus Assessments (CAI), Incident Management and Forensics
LinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13501405
Organizer: Hans Rotteveel

Egypt Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Egypt
Areas of Interest: Virtualization Security and Identification of Cloud Vulnerabilities
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3300570
Organizer: Mohamed El-Refaey

French Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of France
Areas of Interest: Terminology and Translation, Communication, and Reversibility
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3758242
Organizer: Olivier Caleff and Pierre Vacherand

German Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Germany
Areas of Interest: Specific Local Aspects for Secure and Compliant Cloud Computing
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3885181
Organizer: Thomas Loczewski

Greater China Regional Coordinating Body

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Beijing, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong & Macao, Shanghai, South China
Areas of Interest: Promote CSA initiatives to Chinese speaking IT and security professionals. Active study and research on industrial requirements and business cases in the region
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/china/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2955150
Organizer: Yale Li

Hangzhou Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: City of Hangzhou
Areas of Interest: Application of Quantum Network in Cloud Security
Organizer: Xia Congjun
Co-organizer: Tony Liu

Hong Kong & Macau Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Hong Kong Metro Area
Areas of Interest: To enhance user confidence in the security of cloud computing services. To facilitate cloud security training, awareness and education. To encourage professional discussion in influencing security in cloud computing deployments.
Website: https://csahkm.org/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4069005
Organizer: Claudius Lam

Houston Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6640405
Organizer: Peter Vogt

India Regional Coordinating Body

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of India
Areas of Interest: Facilitate creation of new chapters and coordinate national activities in country of India
Organizer: Benildus Nadar

Ireland Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/?gid=4536231
Organizer: Ross Spelman

Israeli Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Israel
Areas of Interest: Incubation of cloud security technology innovations, and localization of CSA best practices
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/israel/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3050440
Organizer: Guy Alfassi , General Manager, Alfa Consulting; Moshe Ferber, Founder and CEO, onlinecloudsec.com

Italian Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Italy
Areas of Interest: Portablity, Interoperability, Application Security, and Legal & Privacy in the Cloud
Website: http://cloudsecurityalliance.it/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2932531
Organizer: Alberto Manfredi

Japanese Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Japan
Areas of Interest: Adapt CSA Research to Japanese market
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/japan/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2920100
Organizer: Morozomi Masahiro

Korea Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Korea
Areas of Interest: Adapting CSA Research to Korean market, CCSK education, Identity issues
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/CSA-Korea-Chapter-3880785
Organizer: Suk Jin Yun

LA/SoCal Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Los Angeles and Southern California
Areas of Interest: CSA STAR awareness
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/socal/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4594297
Organizer: Gary Landau

Malaysia Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Areas of Interest: Promote and localise CSA research and guidelines for cloud computing adoption in Malaysia; promote cloud security education and certification in Malaysia; create a special task force to help organisations adopt CSA best practices to secure their cloud computing projects and initiatives; organise activities to help the local security community to keep abreast with the latest technology, research and best practices from CSA and around the world.
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/malaysia/
LinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=6777560
Organizer: Keill ONG Kok-Leong

Melbourne

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: City of Melbourne
Organizer: We're in the midst of refreshing the leadership of this chapter.

Mexico Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Mexico
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3382482
Organizer: Rodrigo Millán Tovar

Middle East Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Countries of the Middle East
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3772061
Organizer: Moustafa Mahmoud

Minnesota Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: State of Minnesota
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3896882
Organizer: Steve Currie

Morocco Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Morocco
Areas of Interest: Cloud Information Security Governance and Compliance
Organizer: Ayoub Figuigui

Mumbai Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane
Areas of Interest: Cloud Computing Architectural Framework, Governance and Enterprise Risk Management, Application Security, Identity and Access Management
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2963138
Organizer: Keith Prabhu

National Capital Region (NCR), India

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: National Capital Region (India), including New Delhi / Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida / Greater Noida, and Faridabad
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3457249
Organizer: Madhav Chablani

Nepal Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Nepal
LinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8418607
Organizer: Kishore Pant

Netherlands Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of the Netherlands
Areas of Interest: Continuity in the Cloud, Risk of Data Storage in the cloud, and Identity from the Cloud
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/netherlands/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3817127
Organizer: Reinier Landsman

New York Metro Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: New York City Metro Area
Areas of Interest: CSA GRC Stack
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3606473
Organizer: Pamela Fusco

Nigeria Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Nigeria
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3387038
Organizer: Emeka Achebeokosieme

North Texas, DFW Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Fort Worth Metro Area
Areas of Interest: Cloud Security, Governance, Risk, Compliance
Website: http://www.csa-nt.org/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3856567
Organizer: Brian Perry

Northeast Ohio Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Northeast Ohio Area
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4513039
Organizer: Mike Benda

Norway Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Norway
Areas of Interest: Risk and Compliance
Website: https://csanorway.no/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3695786
Organizer: Martin Gilje Jaatun

Pakistan Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Pakistan
LinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8113667
Organizer: Muhammad Sadiq

Panama Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Panama
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3720347
Organizer: Victor Antinori

Peru Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Peru
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3720349
Organizer: Manuel Caldas

Philippines

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of the Philippines
Organizer: Ryan Ty

Polska Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Poland
Areas of Interest: Education and promotion of best practices and standards related to cloud security
Website: http://www.csa.org.pl/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3804287
Organizer: Marcin Fronczak

Romanian Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Romania
Areas of Interest: Accelerating the Cloud adoption at all levels: from Governmental area, Private Companies and citizens, by enhancing confidence in the security of cloud computing services; Legal and Regulatory, especially: Jurisdiction, Privacy and Intellectual Property; Awareness and promotion of the Cloud Security education and certification, including CSA STAR certification and CCSK; Promoting of cloud technologies and cloud security technologies innovations.
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6610147
Organizer: Mihai Christea

Russian Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of the Russia
Areas of Interest: Localization of CSA Global research papers and guidelines, adopting CSA Global best practices to Russian IT Security legislation, development of recommendations for Russian cloud services consumers, establishing relations with Russian cloud service providers and interacting with them in order to improve IT Security management and compliance with best practices
Website: http://www.risspa.ru/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3772058
Organizer: Evgeny Klimov, Denis Bezkorovayny

Seattle Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: City of Seattle
Areas of Interest: Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/seattle/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4040243
Organizer: Vivek Bhatnagar

Shanghai Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: City of Shanghai
Organizer: York Shen, Billy Lee

Shenzhen Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Shenzhen
Organizer: Yale Li

Silicon Valley Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Silicon Valley and Vicinity
Areas of Interest: Innovation
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3300544
Organizer: Srinivas Jaini

Singapore Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Singapore
Areas of Interest: 1. Promote the secure adoption of Cloud Computing in Singapore. | 2. Cloud Computing Education and Certification.
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3772062
Organizer: David Siah

Slovenia Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Slovenia
Website: http://cloudsecurityalliance.si/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3817160
Organizer: Damir Savanovic

South African Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=7411018
Organizer: Phillip Gerber

South China Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Guangzhou and Shenzhen
Organizer: Liu Xiaoyin

South Florida

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4296201
Organizer: Alex Funkhouser

Southeast Michigan Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Southeast Michigan Metro Area
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4040165
Organizer: Sean Wessman

Southwest Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Southwest US Region
Areas of Interest: NFV Cloud Security, Cloud Regulatory and Legal Requirements, Financial Viability of the Cloud
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=5126474
Organizer: Rich Phillips

Spanish Chapter (CSA-ES)

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Spain
Areas of Interest: Compliance
Website: http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.es/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3072937
Organizer: Luis Buezo, Mariano Benito and Ariadna Hernandez

Swedish Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Sweden
Areas of Interest: Secure Authentication in the Cloud using SAML 2.0 technology, primarily to be used in public sector. & Aspects to consider within information security during procurement and use of cloud services.
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4524135
Organizer: Ulf Berglund

Switzerland Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Switzerland
Areas of Interest: Cloud computing in compliance with the Swiss law.
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/switzerland/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4484376
Organizer: Pedro Lagunas

Sydney

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: City of Sydney
Organizer: We're in the midst of refreshing the leadership of this chapter.

Taiwan Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Chinese Taipei
Areas of Interest: Development of cloud security-related hardware, security services, cloud-based data protection technology and cloud service management framework
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4131253
Organizer: Yi-Lang Tsai

Tampa Bay Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Tampa Bay Region
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Cloud-Security-Alliance-Tampa-Bay-3793911?home=&gid=3793911&trk=anet_ug_hm
Organizer: Matthew Metheny

Thailand Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Thailand
Areas of Interest: CCSK training and OCF adoption.
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4747216
Organizer: Dr Sak Segkhoonthod

Toronto

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Toronto

Tunisia Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Tunisia
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4129631
Organizer: Haythem El Mir

Turkish Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Country of Turkey
Areas of Interest: Related Laws and Regulations; Security as a Service
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4492003
Organizer: Murat Lostar

United Kingdom Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: United Kingdom
Areas of Interest: Privacy / Small Guidance for Small Enterprises
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3745837
Organizer: Paul Davies

Uttrakhand Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: City of Uttrakhand, India
LinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8409109
Organizer: Satyam Rastogi

Vietnam Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: Country of Vietnam
Website: https://csavietnam.org
LinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8406671
Organizer: Philip Hung Cao

Washington DC Metro Area Chapter

Chapter Status: Official Chapter
Region: Washington DC Metro Area
Areas of Interest: Federal Cloud Security Center of Expertise.
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/washingtondc/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3186074
Organizer: John Nicholson

Wisconsin Chapter

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4514813
Organizer: Jim O’Brien

Xi’an

Chapter Status: Developing Chapter
Region: City of Xi'an
Organizer: Ma Kun