The CCSK Helps You:

• Validate your competence gained through experience in cloud security
• Demonstrate your technical knowledge, skills, and abilities to effectively develop a holistic cloud security program relative to globally accepted standards
• Differentiate yourself from other candidates for desirable employment in the fast-growing cloud security market
• Gain access to valuable career resources, such as tools, networking and ideas exchange with peers

The CCSK Helps Employers:

• Protect against threats with qualified professionals who have the expertise to competently design, build, and maintain a secure cloud business environment
• Increase your confidence that candidates are qualified and committed to cloud security
• Ensure practitioners use a universal language, circumventing ambiguity with industry-accepted cloud security terms and practices
• Increase organizations’ credibility when working with constituents

The CCSK Helps Cloud Providers and Consulting Organizations:

• Increase revenues by winning more business using expertise demonstrated with certified staff
• Increase organizations’ credibility and trust when working with clients and vendors

What the Industry Says

“Having dealt with security since the creation of our Group 60 years ago, at Kudelski Security we are thrilled to leverage CSA’s Cloud Security Knowledge certification to bring our Cyber Security Division’s engineering experts to a common level of understanding of best practices and benefits of cloud computing. When training clients in corporate and public segments on information security standards, we highlight the importance of CSA’s CCSK certification for IT professionals who need to ensure adoption of secure cloud environment in their organizations.”

~ Joel Conus, VP Cyber Security Operations, Kudelski Security

“The CSA, in providing a set of goals through the CCSK, is challenging security practitioners to become the cloud thought-leaders we need today and tomorrow to ensure safe and secure cloud environments. In developing the CCSK, CSA is 'setting the bar' for security professionals and providing business executives a means to gauge the opinions and rhetoric associated with security in the cloud.”

~ Jerry Archer, CSO, Sallie Mae

“With CCSK certification, professionals who have Cloud Computing responsibilities can demonstrate thorough Cloud security knowledge based on the CSA’s catalogue of security best practices.”

~ Patrick Harding, CTO, Ping Identity

"As enterprises move toward cloud computing, they are desperately seeking guidance and education in this new domain. CSA is bridging this gap and the CCSK provides an important first step in establishing baseline knowledge for individuals tasked with building and managing applications to the cloud."

~ Michael Sutton, CISO, Zscaler