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.
View Current ProjectsCloud Controls Matrix and CAIQ v4
Working Group Leadership

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...

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 ...

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
Program Manager / Research Analyst, CSA EMEA
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Publications in Review | Open Until |
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The Six Pillars of DevSecOps - Collaboration and Integration | Oct 20, 2023 |
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Sep
27
CCMv4 WG
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Sep
28
CCMv4 Workshop Sessions
In overall, the objective of this workshop meeting is to support the CCMv4 WG activities at a more granular level, allowing for smaller group discussions to enter deeper technical details in the ongoing works.
Scope & Objectives:
- Provide guidance to new members participating in the exercise,
- Allowing for participants involved in the mappings to meet up and discuss the consolidation of the provided inputs,
- Discuss and resolve any inquiries, issues, challenges pertaining to the mapping and gap analysis methodology followed,
- Benefit the project by enhancing the collaboration between CCM WG "mapping veterans" and new, less experienced members,
- Share the "know-how" for the proper interpretation and comparison analysis of controls' semantics,
- Obtain a deeper insight and better understanding of the CCMv4 and other international standards control specifications,
- Maintain a steady pace and progress towards the mappings development timeline and meet expected deadlines
Looking forward to lively and fruitful discussions.
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Oct
5
CCMv4 Workshop Sessions
In overall, the objective of this workshop meeting is to support the CCMv4 WG activities at a more granular level, allowing for smaller group discussions to enter deeper technical details in the ongoing works.
Scope & Objectives:
- Provide guidance to new members participating in the exercise,
- Allowing for participants involved in the mappings to meet up and discuss the consolidation of the provided inputs,
- Discuss and resolve any inquiries, issues, challenges pertaining to the mapping and gap analysis methodology followed,
- Benefit the project by enhancing the collaboration between CCM WG "mapping veterans" and new, less experienced members,
- Share the "know-how" for the proper interpretation and comparison analysis of controls' semantics,
- Obtain a deeper insight and better understanding of the CCMv4 and other international standards control specifications,
- Maintain a steady pace and progress towards the mappings development timeline and meet expected deadlines
Looking forward to lively and fruitful discussions.
Best,
Lefteris
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Oct
11
CCMv4 WG
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- Follow up on the latest CCM WG activities in Circle.
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Oct
12
CCMv4 Workshop Sessions
In overall, the objective of this workshop meeting is to support the CCMv4 WG activities at a more granular level, allowing for smaller group discussions to enter deeper technical details in the ongoing works.
Scope & Objectives:
- Provide guidance to new members participating in the exercise,
- Allowing for participants involved in the mappings to meet up and discuss the consolidation of the provided inputs,
- Discuss and resolve any inquiries, issues, challenges pertaining to the mapping and gap analysis methodology followed,
- Benefit the project by enhancing the collaboration between CCM WG "mapping veterans" and new, less experienced members,
- Share the "know-how" for the proper interpretation and comparison analysis of controls' semantics,
- Obtain a deeper insight and better understanding of the CCMv4 and other international standards control specifications,
- Maintain a steady pace and progress towards the mappings development timeline and meet expected deadlines
Looking forward to lively and fruitful discussions.
Best,
Lefteris
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Oct
19
CCMv4 Workshop Sessions
In overall, the objective of this workshop meeting is to support the CCMv4 WG activities at a more granular level, allowing for smaller group discussions to enter deeper technical details in the ongoing works.
Scope & Objectives:
- Provide guidance to new members participating in the exercise,
- Allowing for participants involved in the mappings to meet up and discuss the consolidation of the provided inputs,
- Discuss and resolve any inquiries, issues, challenges pertaining to the mapping and gap analysis methodology followed,
- Benefit the project by enhancing the collaboration between CCM WG "mapping veterans" and new, less experienced members,
- Share the "know-how" for the proper interpretation and comparison analysis of controls' semantics,
- Obtain a deeper insight and better understanding of the CCMv4 and other international standards control specifications,
- Maintain a steady pace and progress towards the mappings development timeline and meet expected deadlines
Looking forward to lively and fruitful discussions.
Best,
Lefteris
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Oct
25
CCMv4 WG
Additional info:
- Follow up on the latest CCM WG activities in Circle.
- If having issues finding the CCM WG, please follow the step by step guide to Circle on-boarding here.
- WG call meetings are recorded and made available to the rest of the group. The purpose of the recordings and their use is for the writing of meetings minutes and members in "difficult" time zones only. Please visit the "Data Protection Notice" document, which includes the purposes of use, retention period of audio files, etc.
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Oct
26
CCMv4 Workshop Sessions
In overall, the objective of this workshop meeting is to support the CCMv4 WG activities at a more granular level, allowing for smaller group discussions to enter deeper technical details in the ongoing works.
Scope & Objectives:
- Provide guidance to new members participating in the exercise,
- Allowing for participants involved in the mappings to meet up and discuss the consolidation of the provided inputs,
- Discuss and resolve any inquiries, issues, challenges pertaining to the mapping and gap analysis methodology followed,
- Benefit the project by enhancing the collaboration between CCM WG "mapping veterans" and new, less experienced members,
- Share the "know-how" for the proper interpretation and comparison analysis of controls' semantics,
- Obtain a deeper insight and better understanding of the CCMv4 and other international standards control specifications,
- Maintain a steady pace and progress towards the mappings development timeline and meet expected deadlines
Looking forward to lively and fruitful discussions.
Best,
Lefteris
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Nov
2
CCMv4 Workshop Sessions
In overall, the objective of this workshop meeting is to support the CCMv4 WG activities at a more granular level, allowing for smaller group discussions to enter deeper technical details in the ongoing works.
Scope & Objectives:
- Provide guidance to new members participating in the exercise,
- Allowing for participants involved in the mappings to meet up and discuss the consolidation of the provided inputs,
- Discuss and resolve any inquiries, issues, challenges pertaining to the mapping and gap analysis methodology followed,
- Benefit the project by enhancing the collaboration between CCM WG "mapping veterans" and new, less experienced members,
- Share the "know-how" for the proper interpretation and comparison analysis of controls' semantics,
- Obtain a deeper insight and better understanding of the CCMv4 and other international standards control specifications,
- Maintain a steady pace and progress towards the mappings development timeline and meet expected deadlines
Looking forward to lively and fruitful discussions.
Best,
Lefteris
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Nov
8
CCMv4 WG
Additional info:
- Follow up on the latest CCM WG activities in Circle.
- If having issues finding the CCM WG, please follow the step by step guide to Circle on-boarding here.
- WG call meetings are recorded and made available to the rest of the group. The purpose of the recordings and their use is for the writing of meetings minutes and members in "difficult" time zones only. Please visit the "Data Protection Notice" document, which includes the purposes of use, retention period of audio files, etc.
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Nov
9
CCMv4 Workshop Sessions
In overall, the objective of this workshop meeting is to support the CCMv4 WG activities at a more granular level, allowing for smaller group discussions to enter deeper technical details in the ongoing works.
Scope & Objectives:
- Provide guidance to new members participating in the exercise,
- Allowing for participants involved in the mappings to meet up and discuss the consolidation of the provided inputs,
- Discuss and resolve any inquiries, issues, challenges pertaining to the mapping and gap analysis methodology followed,
- Benefit the project by enhancing the collaboration between CCM WG "mapping veterans" and new, less experienced members,
- Share the "know-how" for the proper interpretation and comparison analysis of controls' semantics,
- Obtain a deeper insight and better understanding of the CCMv4 and other international standards control specifications,
- Maintain a steady pace and progress towards the mappings development timeline and meet expected deadlines
Looking forward to lively and fruitful discussions.
Best,
Lefteris
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Nov
16
CCMv4 Workshop Sessions
In overall, the objective of this workshop meeting is to support the CCMv4 WG activities at a more granular level, allowing for smaller group discussions to enter deeper technical details in the ongoing works.
Scope & Objectives:
- Provide guidance to new members participating in the exercise,
- Allowing for participants involved in the mappings to meet up and discuss the consolidation of the provided inputs,
- Discuss and resolve any inquiries, issues, challenges pertaining to the mapping and gap analysis methodology followed,
- Benefit the project by enhancing the collaboration between CCM WG "mapping veterans" and new, less experienced members,
- Share the "know-how" for the proper interpretation and comparison analysis of controls' semantics,
- Obtain a deeper insight and better understanding of the CCMv4 and other international standards control specifications,
- Maintain a steady pace and progress towards the mappings development timeline and meet expected deadlines
Looking forward to lively and fruitful discussions.
Best,
Lefteris
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Nov
22
CCMv4 WG
Additional info:
- Follow up on the latest CCM WG activities in Circle.
- If having issues finding the CCM WG, please follow the step by step guide to Circle on-boarding here.
- WG call meetings are recorded and made available to the rest of the group. The purpose of the recordings and their use is for the writing of meetings minutes and members in "difficult" time zones only. Please visit the "Data Protection Notice" document, which includes the purposes of use, retention period of audio files, etc.
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Nov
23
CCMv4 Workshop Sessions
In overall, the objective of this workshop meeting is to support the CCMv4 WG activities at a more granular level, allowing for smaller group discussions to enter deeper technical details in the ongoing works.
Scope & Objectives:
- Provide guidance to new members participating in the exercise,
- Allowing for participants involved in the mappings to meet up and discuss the consolidation of the provided inputs,
- Discuss and resolve any inquiries, issues, challenges pertaining to the mapping and gap analysis methodology followed,
- Benefit the project by enhancing the collaboration between CCM WG "mapping veterans" and new, less experienced members,
- Share the "know-how" for the proper interpretation and comparison analysis of controls' semantics,
- Obtain a deeper insight and better understanding of the CCMv4 and other international standards control specifications,
- Maintain a steady pace and progress towards the mappings development timeline and meet expected deadlines
Looking forward to lively and fruitful discussions.
Best,
Lefteris
──────────
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