Working Group
Cloud Controls Matrix Working Group
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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Cloud Controls Matrix and CAIQ v4
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 an Associate Director with Protiviti’s 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 environments. From his experie...
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...
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What is the time commitment?
The time commitment for this group varies depending on the project. You can spend a 15 minutes helping review a publication that's nearly finished or help author a publication from start to finish.
Virtual Meetings
Attend our next meeting. You can just listen in to decide if this group is a good for you or you can choose to actively participate. During these calls we discuss current projects, and well as share ideas for new projects. This is a good way to meet the other members of the group. You can view all research meetings here.
Open Peer Reviews
Peer reviews allow security professionals from around the world to provide feedback on CSA research before it is published.