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 | Justify Your Investment in CCSK Training Release Date: 05/02/2018 The Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Foundation class provides students a comprehensive review of cloud security fundamentals and a detailed de... Request to download |
 | A Day Without Safe Cryptography Release Date: 04/19/2018 Over the past fifty years, the digital age has sparked the creation of a remarkable infrastructure through which a nearly infinite variety of digital transac... Request to download |
 | GDPR Preparation and Awareness Survey Report Release Date: 04/17/2018 Cloud computing, the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and other new technologies allow businesses to have better customer engagement, more access... Request to download |
 | Best Practices for Cyber Incident Exchange Release Date: 04/16/2018 No organization is immune from cyber attack. Malicious actors collaborate with skill and agility, effectively moving from target to target at a breakneck pac... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 04/16/2018 Innovators and early adopters have been using cloud for years taking advantage of the quicker deployment, greater scalability, and cost saving of services. T... Request to download |
 | Using Blockchain Technology to Secure the Internet of Things Release Date: 02/13/2018 In the last four years, technical experts, chief digital officers, marketing managers, journalists, bloggers and research institutions have discussed and pro... Request to download |
 | The State of Enterprise Resource Planning Security in the Cloud Release Date: 02/07/2018 The State of ERP Security in the Cloud briefly highlights some of the issues and challenges of migrating ERP solutions to the cloud. The document examines co... Request to download |
 | Quantum-Safe Security Awareness Survey Release Date: 01/26/2018 Quantum computing threatens the security of public key cryptography, which underlies our global digital communications infrastructure. While many significant... Request to download |
 | Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Working Group Glossary Release Date: 12/15/2017 Blockchain is a radical, evolving technology and there is little awareness or knowledge regarding security aspects or compliance implications among many t... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 11/20/2017 As a SaaS startup understand how to gain and maintain customers’ trust, by building solid security foundations at an early stage of your product development ... Request to download |
 | Top Threats to Cloud Computing Plus: Industry Insights Release Date: 10/20/2017 Abstract: The Top Threats to Cloud Computing Plus: Industry Insights serves as a validation of the relevance of security issues discussed in the earlier docu... Request to download |
| Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire v3.0.1 [NO LONGER SUPPORTED] Release Date: 10/12/2017 The 3.0.1 version of the CAIQ is no longer supported. To get the new CAIQ 3.1 version, please visit this link: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/co... Request to download |
 | Improving Metrics in Cyber Resiliency Release Date: 08/30/2017 Cyber resiliency is important as it gives us “the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, or more successfully adapt to actual or potential ad... Request to download |
 | Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing v4.0 Release Date: 07/26/2017 The rise of cloud computing as an ever-evolving technology brings with it a number of opportunities and challenges. With this document, we aim to provide bot... Request to download |
 | A Repeatable Cloud-first Deployment Process Model Release Date: 06/06/2017 By now the benefits of cloud computing are generally understood at high level. What is not necessarily clear are the details of the potential security, legal... Request to download |
 | Observations and Recommendations on Connected Vehicle Security Release Date: 05/25/2017 The introduction of Connected Vehicles (CVs) has been discussed for many years. Pilot implementations currently underway are evaluating CV operations in real... Request to download |
 | State of Cloud Adoption in APAC 2017 Release Date: 04/23/2017 Request to download |
 | Custom Applications and IaaS Trends 2017 Release Date: 04/07/2017 Despite the wide range of commercial off-the-shelf applications, both on-premises and cloud-based, enterprises continue to develop their own custom applicati... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 03/13/2017 Over the last year or so, the perceived threat of the quantum computer to modern cryptographic standards in widespread use has increased dramatically. Govern... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 02/13/2017 Obtain a clear sense of the security challenges facing enterprise users of IaaS, understand the problems that arise from combining native IaaS access control... Request to download |