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CSA Seeks Input For Open Peer Review: Cloud Trust Protocol Work Group Charter

Published: 06/12/2013

The Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Trust Protocol (CTP) Working Group would like to invite you to review and comment on their updated work group charter. The CTP work group is chartered to research the areas of continuous monitoring/auditing for cloud assurance and transparency certification. The ...

Cloud Security Alliance Seeking Co-chairs for the Cloud Trust Protocol Working Group

Published: 06/12/2013

The CSA Cloud Trust Protocol (CTP) Working Group is seeking new co-chairs to lead research in the areas of continuous monitoring/auditing for cloud assurance and transparency certification. These (2) volunteer positions have a 1-year term commitment. The co-chair works in collaboration with the C...

Cloud Security Alliance Announces Keynotes For EMEA Congress 2013

Published: 06/10/2013

Edinburgh, Scotland – June 10, 2013 - MIS Training Institute and the Cloud Security Alliance are pleased to announce the initial lineup of speakers, including esteemed keynotes, for this year’s EMEA Congress, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 25th - 26th September 2013. The Congress this yea...

CSA CloudBytes: HIPAA Omnibus Rule (Thursday 6/13, 12pm Pacific)

Published: 06/06/2013

Don't miss this free event! On June 13th at 12:00pm (PDT), the CSA Health Information Working Group will be hosting a webinar on: The HIPAA Omnibus Rule The speakers will provide a detailed overview of the provisions of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, which became effective March 26, 2013, with transi...

White Paper Analysing Cloud Vulnerability Incidents from 2008-2012 released by the CSA Cloud Vulnerabilities Working Group

Published: 05/31/2013

A white paper studying cloud computing outages reported by the media over a four year period has been released by the newly-established CSA Cloud Vulnerabilities Working Group. The team from the Cyber Security Lab, University of Waikato, in New Zealand, and School of Mechanical & Aerospace En...

Cloud Security Alliance APAC Defines 2013-2014 Research Roadmap

Published: 05/16/2013

CSA CONGRESS ASIA PACIFIC – Singapore - May 16, 2013 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, today announced at the CSA APAC Congress that its APAC region leader...

Cloud Security Alliance Develops Third-Party Certification Scheme with Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Published: 05/15/2013

CSA CONGRESS ASIA PACIFIC – Singapore - May 15, 2013 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, today announced a new partnership with the Infocomm Development Auth...

Cloud Security Alliance Successfully Completes Open Certification Framework (OCF) Pilot Implementations with Alibaba and New Taipei City Government

Published: 05/15/2013

Representatives to Discuss Cloud Computing Pilot Results and Key Learnings at CSA Congress APAC CSA CONGRESS ASIA PACIFIC – Singapore - May 15, 2013 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced the successful completion of the Open Certification Framework’s (OCF) STAR Certification pi...

CSA CEE Summit 2013 Call for Speakers

Published: 05/14/2013

The first CSA CEE Summit 2013 will be held on 23 October at City Hotel in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The congress’s unique mix of R&D, policy makers and regulators, end-user and industry audience members, promises interesting discussions, networking and business opportunities throughout the event....

Cloud Security Alliance Expands APAC Region Leadership Team

Published: 05/10/2013

Leaders from Microsoft, University of Waikato, Phitech Corporation and ASEAN to Guide Organization’s Rapid Growth of CSA in APAC Market CSA CONGRESS ASIA PACIFIC – Singapore - May 10, 2013 -– The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of ...

CSA Cloud Bytes: Big Data Analytics (Tues 5/7, 10am PDT)

Published: 05/03/2013

As part of our mission to educate the industry on all matters related to the cloud, CSA Cloud Bytes would like to present a webinar on Big Data Analytics. On May 7th, the CSA Big Data Working Group will be hosting a webinar highlighting: Michael Stonebraker - Scalable Complex Analytics and DBMSs ...

Cloud Security Alliance to Moderate Panel Discussion at CIO Summit Europe

Published: 04/26/2013

CHICAGO, April 25, 2013 — CDM Media announced today that the company will partner with Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a leading not-for-profit organization dedicated to cloud computing education and promoting best practices. CSA will moderate an Executive Visions panel at the upcoming CIO Summit ...

(ISC)2® and the Cloud Security Alliance Collaborate to Create New Professional Certification for Cloud Security

Published: 04/25/2013

Infosecurity Europe, London, UK – 24th April 2013: (ISC)2® (“ISC-squared”), the world’s largest not-for-profit information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®; and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to promote the use of best pr...

CSA Establishes Small and Medium Business Working Group and Membership Program

Published: 04/24/2013

Offerings to Help SMB Community Understand and Benefit from Cloud Computing InfoSecurity Europe – London, UK – April 24, 2013 – **The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced a new membership level and working group designed to benefit the rapidly growing needs of cloud computing among ...

Cloud Security Alliance Seeking Speakers For US Congress 2013 In Orlando

Published: 04/01/2013

This call for speakers has ended. For more information about the event please visit the CSA Congress 2013 page. Orlando, FL – March 28, 2013 - MIS Training Institute and the Cloud Security Alliance are looking for seasoned speakers to present at the 4th Annual Cloud Security Alliance Congress U...

Upcoming Cloud Security Training in EMEA

Published: 03/22/2013

Securosis has recently updated the CCSK training curriculum to be in alignment with the Cloud Security Alliance Guidance V3.0, and the training class is much improved. Many of the hands-on exercises have been overhauled, and if you are looking to get familiar with cloud security you will want to ...

CCSK Training to Be Held By HP Education at CSA Congress APAC

Published: 03/19/2013

HP has been named as a partner of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Master Training Program. The CSA Master Training Program is designed to accelerate worldwide access and adoption of the CSA Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Certification, the industry’s most trusted user certific...

Open Survey: CIRRUS: Towards an EU Framework for Cloud Service Provider Security

Published: 03/19/2013

Certification, InteRnationalisation and standaRdization in cloUd Security (CIRRUS) is a FP7 project funded by the European Commission The objective of this project is to bring together representatives of industry organizations, law enforcement agencies, cloud services providers, standard and cer...

CSA Cloud Bytes on March 19th Will Focus on Financial Services

Published: 03/14/2013

As part of our mission to educate the industry on all matters related to the cloud, CSA has launched a new free educational webinar series called CSA Cloud Bytes. On March 19th, CSA will focus on financial services, providing an educational session including real world case studies of financia...

"CUMULUS" Research Project Investigates Certification Infrastructure for Multi-Layer Cloud Services

Published: 03/14/2013

Rome, Italy – February 28th, 2013 – Eight partners from European science and industry have joined forces in the CUMULUS research project to investigate how in future cloud services can be made more secure and trustworthy for end users. Cloud computing is the use of hardware and software resources...

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