Cloud Controls Matrix and CAIQ v4
The more complex systems become, the less secure they become, even though security technologies improve. With the proliferation of security certifications, industry standards and regulations it is becoming increasingly challenging to keep up with the requirements to stay secure and compliant in the cloud.
To respond to simplify the process of assessing the overall security risk of a cloud provider, CSA created the Cloud Control Matrix (CCM) and Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ). The CCM provides a controls framework that gives detailed understanding of security concepts and principles that are aligned to the best practices outlined in the CSA Security Guidance for Cloud Computing. The CAIQ provides a set of Yes/No questions a cloud consumer and cloud auditor may wish to ask of a cloud provider to ascertain their compliance to the CCM. To learn more about how to use the CCM you can download the CCM Implementation Guidelines.
Help Integrate the CCM with CRI’s Financial Services Cybersecurity Profile
CSA is partnering with the Cyber Risk Institute (CRI) to provide the financial community with new resources to map and integrate CSA’s Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) and CRI’s Financial Services Cybersecurity Profile. The goal is to define the scope, objectives and technical specifications of the Cloud Security Framework for Financial Services. To learn more, download our group charter.
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Along with releasing updated versions of the CCM and CAIQ, this working group provides addendums, control mappings and gap analysis between the CCM and other research releases, industry standards, and regulations to keep it continually up to date.
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Working Group Leadership
Sean Cordero
Sean Cordero brings more than 15 years of information security and IT experience to his current role as director, information security at Optiv. Cordero provides executive level advisement for the company’s Fortune 50 clients. Cordero’s prior leadership roles included: President of Cloud Watchmen, CSO for EdFund, CSO for ECMC West, Director of Security and Compliance for Charlotte Russe.
Cordero is a thought-leader and serves as chair...
Shawn Harris
Director of Information Security
With more than 25 years of information security experience, Shawn Harris is currently the Director of Information Security at Starbucks Coffee Company. His background includes engineering, architecture, and executive responsibilities. Shawn is currently co-chair of the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix working group, where he led efforts to develop the Cloud Control Matrix 4.0. Additionally, he has served on CSA’s Consensus Assessments ...
Harry Lu
Manager, PwC Cybersecurity
Harry Lu brings perspectives of Cloud Security from the professional services industry. He is currently a manager with the PwC Cybersecurity practice. Being part of the PwC Cloud Security Team, Harry’s background includes security strategy planning, security operations development and security executive consulting roles. He has also had years of hands-on experience implementing cloud security technologies across SaaS, IaaS and hybrid cloud ...
Daniele Catteddu
Chief Technology Officer, CSA
Daniele Catteddu is an information security and risk management practitioner, technologies expert and privacy evangelist with over 15 of experience. He worked in several senior roles both in the private and public sector. He is member of various national and international security expert groups and committees on cyber-security and privacy, keynote speaker at several conferences and author of numerous studies and papers on risk management, ...
Eleftherios Skoutaris
Innovation Analyst, CSA EMEA
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David Nickles
Global Audit Program Manager for FSIs
David Nickles is a Global Audit Program Manager for FSI’s at Amazon Web Services (AWS). His work focuses on enabling financial services institutions to move their workloads to the cloud by providing sound guidance for building programs to ensure regulatory, governance, risk, compliance, audit, and security control requirements are met, align to industry best practices, and appropriate due diligence activity is completed. Prior to AWS, David...
Cloud Controls Matrix v4 and CAIQ v4
CSA Research crowd-sources the knowledge and expertise of security experts and helps address the challenges and needs they’ve experienced, or seen others experience, within the cybersecurity field. Each publication is vendor-neutral and follows the peer review process outlined in the CSA Research Lifecycle. We recommend getting started by reading the following documents.
Cloud Controls Matrix v4 and CAIQ v4
The Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) is a cybersecurity control framework and is considered the de-facto standard for cloud security and privacy. Version 4 of the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) has been combined with the Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ). Version 4 introduces changes in the structure of the framework with a new domain dedicated to Log and Monitoring (LOG), and a significant increase in requirements. Additional features are: ensured coverage of requirements deriving from new cloud technologies, new controls and security responsibility matrix, improved auditability of the controls, and enhanced interoperability and compatibility.
CCM Translation in 10 Languages
CSA in the context of an agreement with OneTrust has translated the Cloud Control Matrix (CCM) v3.0.1 in 10 languages in order to facilitate their easier adoption by organizations in the corresponding countries. Provided translations are in: Spanish (ES), German (DE), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Danish (DA), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO) and Swedish (SV).
CCM v4 Implementation Guidelines
This document will help you understand how to navigate through the Cloud Controls Matrix v4 to use it effectively and how to interpret and implement the CCM control specifications. Given a certain CCM control specification, the document will help explain what should be done to effectively implement and monitor the control, which specific best practices should be followed, what the specific regulations of reference are, and what the differences are when implementing a control from the SaaS-PaaS-IaaS perspective.
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Press Coverage
| Article Title | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 7 free GRC tools every compliance professional should know about | Search Compiance | November 30, 2020 |
| A Growing Digital Economy Means More Cybersecurity Challenges | Forbes | November 30, 2020 |
| Cloud Security Alliance’s New Cloud Controls Matrix V4 Adds New Log and Monitoring Domain and More Than 60 New Cloud Security Controls | AIthority | January 22, 2021 |
| Cloud Controls Matrix v4 adds 60+ new cloud security controls | Help Net Security | January 22, 2021 |
| Whose job is it anyway? Cloud Security Alliance updates controls matrix to include logging and monitoring | DevClass | January 25, 2021 |