Global Chapters 
Argentina Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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: Hernán Racciatti
Atlanta Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: City of Atlanta
Areas of Interest: CSP Maturity Model and Contractual Guidance
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3664160
Organizer: Dave Shackleford
Austin Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: City of Austin
Areas of Interest: Cloud computing architecture.
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4160330
Organizer: Glen Roberts
Australia Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: Country of Australia
Areas of Interest: Virtualisation; Local Legal, Jurisdiction, and Privacy; Identity Management; Standards, Compliance, and Audit; and Security as a Service.
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3966724
Organizer: Richard Keirstead
Bangalore Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: City of Bangalore
Areas of Interest: Mobility, Cloud Solutions
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3300578
Organizer: Jeyo Sargunam
Beijing Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: City of Beijing
Website: http://csagcc.org
Organizer: Dr Richard Zhao
Belgium & Luxemburg Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterLinkedIn Subgroup: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=8108690
Organizer: Ulrich Seldeslachts
Boston Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: City of Boston
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3772057
Organizer: Josh Bregman
Brazilian Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: Countries of the Caribbean
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3811215
Organizer: Roland Kissoon
Carolinas Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: Central America Region
Areas of Interest: Risk Analysis Guidelines
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3772060
Organizer: Jorge Higueros
Chennai Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: City of Chennai
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3139479
Organizer: Chandrasekar Umapathy
Chicago Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: City of Chicago
Areas of Interest: Identity Management; Provider Assessments; and Legal
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3755674
Organizer: Scott Clark
Colombia Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Country of Colombia
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3350616
Organizer: Juan Carlos Alvarez
Colorado Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterLinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4757812
Organizer: Marshall England
Delaware Valley Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Cities along the Delaware River
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3711544
Organizer: David Lingenfelter
Egypt Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: Country of 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: Dr Richard Zhao
Guangzhou Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: City of Guangzhou
Organizer: Jun, Shen
Hong Kong & Macau Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/hongkongmacau/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4069005
Organizer: Michael Yung
Houston Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterLinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6640405
Organizer: Stowe Spivey
Hyderabad Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: City of Hyderabad
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3664163
Organizer: Ajay Porus
India Regional Coordinating Body
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: Country of India
Areas of Interest: Facilitate creation of new chapters and coordinate national activities in country of India
Website: http://www.csaindia.in/
Organizer: Keith Prabhu
Indonesia Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Country of Indonesia
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3966727
Organizer: William Ho
Ireland Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterLinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/?gid=4536231
Organizer: Brian Honan
Islamabad Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterLinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=8113667
Organizer: Muhammad Sadiq
Israeli Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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: Ben Katsumi
Korea Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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: Kay Kim
LA/SoCal Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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: Official ChapterAreas 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: Victor Lo
Mexico Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Country of Mexico
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3382482
Organizer: Rodrigo Millán Tovar
Middle East Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Countries of the Middle East
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3772061
Organizer: Moustafa Mahmoud
Minnesota Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: State of Minnesota
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3896882
Organizer: Steve Currie
Mumbai Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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: Developing ChapterRegion: National Capital Region (India), including New Delhi / Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida / Greater Noida, and Faridabad
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3457249
Organizer: Aloysius Cheang
Netherlands Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: New York City Metro Area
Areas of Interest: CSA GRC Stack
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3606473
Organizer: Pamela Fusco
New Zealand Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: Country of New Zealand
Areas of Interest: Cloud Security Audit and Controls for NZ market, Awareness and Privacy
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/newzealand/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3896707
Organizer: Aloysius Cheang
Nigeria Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Country of Nigeria
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3387038
Organizer: Emeka Achebeokosieme
North Texas, DFW Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: Northeast Ohio Area
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4513039
Organizer: James E Turchek
Norway Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: Country of Norway
Areas of Interest: Risk and Compliance
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/csanorway/
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3695786
Organizer: Kai Roer
Pakistan Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Country of Pakistan
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4239786
Organizer: Nahil Mahmood
Panama Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Country of Panama
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3720347
Organizer: Victor Antinori
Peru Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Country of Peru
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3720349
Organizer: Jack Zilberman
Polska Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: City of Shanghai
Organizer: York Shen
Silicon Valley Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterLinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=7411018
Organizer: Phillip Gerber
South Florida
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterLinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4296201
Organizer: Alex Funkhouser
Southeast Michigan Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Southeast Michigan Metro Area
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4040165
Organizer: Sean Wessman
Southwest Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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: Klaus Gribi
Taiwan Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: Country of Taiwan
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: Aha Lin
Tampa Bay Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: Toronto
Tunisia Chapter
Chapter Status: Developing ChapterRegion: Country of Tunisia
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4129631
Organizer: Haythem El Mir
Turkish Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterRegion: United Kingdom
Areas of Interest: Privacy / Small Guidance for Small Enterprises
LinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3745837
Organizer: Paul Davies
Washington DC Metro Area Chapter
Chapter Status: Official ChapterRegion: 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 ChapterLinkedIn Subgroup: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4514813
Organizer: Jim O’Brien
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