Cloud Security Alliance and Asia Cybersecurity Exchange Renew Memorandum of Intent

Collaboration strengthens ties between both organizations in areas of research, capacity building, and training

Malaysia, May 13, 2020 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, announced that it has renewed its Memorandum of Intent (MoI) with the Asia Cybersecurity Exchange (ACE) on April 21, 2020. The renewed collaboration encourages future collaboration between both parties in such areas as research, capacity building, and training.

The new MoI furthers the joint efforts between CSA and AsiacyberX, specifically in the areas of:

• Sharing at events in competency and expertise in cloud security, assurance, risk management, and governance;
• Development of quality content for specific research and best practices, covering technology governance, risk, security, and audit-related areas; and
• Development of quality content for AsiacyberX’s capacity building and innovation program.

"We have achieved much together in building the cloud security community in Malaysia the last two years. The renewed MoI will help intensify the working partnership between CSA and AsiacyberX in education and research, including technical and professional education and training, and will open up new avenues of cooperation," said Jim Reavis, co-founder and CEO, CSA.

The first MoI was signed in April 2018 at the launch of AsiacyberX in Malaysia. During the course of the initial MoI, both parties successfully organized and supported the inaugural CSA Malaysia Summit (2018) and CSA APAC Congress (2019) targeting the cloud security community. Further, both parties led and participated in the development of quality content for such research working groups as Mobile Application Security Testing and Cloud Incident Response, and Certificate of Cloud Security training and events (e.g., cloud industry roundtable discussions).

“We are delighted to continue the partnership between AsiacyberX and CSA to continuing growing the talents into world-class players. It is a consolidated partnership as we believe working together can create greater outcomes,” said Group Chairman Y. Bhg. Tan Sri Dato’ Ahmad Fuzi Haji Abdul Razak.

About Asia CyberSecurity Exchange
Asia Cybersecurity Exchange, also known as ASIACYBERX is determined to make Malaysia one of the major cyber security hub in the world and to grow all of our talents into world-class players, offering a new level of cyber security expertise to organizations worldwide. Founded and supported by LGMS (https://lgms.global) – the largest cyber security consultancy firm in Asia, ASIACYBERX focuses on ASIACYBERX Start-Up Accelerator Program, Cyber security Talent Development, Training & Mentor-ship, Event Coordination, Job Marketplace and Co-working Office for Cyber security Start-ups. AsiaCyberX is solely owned by ACE Accelerator Network Sdn Bhd and was formed out of a partnership between LGMS and the ACE Group, which is involved in financial services, investments and capital management. For more information, visit https://asiacyberx.com.

About the Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products. CSA’s activities, knowledge and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and the assurance industry — and provide a forum through which diverse parties can work together to create and maintain a trusted cloud ecosystem. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.