Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

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The Cloud Security Alliance comprises many subject matter experts from a wide variety of disciplines, united in our objectives: to promote a common level of understanding between the consumers and providers of cloud computing regarding the necessary security requirements and attestation of assurance; to promote independent research into best practices for cloud computing security; to launch awareness campaigns and educational programs on the appropriate uses of cloud computing and cloud security solutions; and to create consensus lists of issues and guidance for cloud security assurance.

Biography:
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

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By Ed King A single enterprise wide identity and access management (IAM) platform is a noble but unattainable goal. The network perimeter is now a metaphorical “Berlin Wall” between the two identity platform domains of Cloud and On-Premise. It is time for enterprises to formalize a stra ...
Posted 14 May 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Stuart Lisk  Business continuity remains a major concern for enterprises as they move more mission-critical processes to the cloud. Outsourcing B2B integration while ensuring cloud security in order to effectively integrate business processes is challenging at best, and ambiguous for certai ...
Posted 01 May 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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Configuration Compliance in the Cloud
By David Meltzer As a member solution provider in the Cloud Security Alliance, paying careful attention to risk and planning for improvement is second nature for my own companies’ security services. As a consumer of many start-up cloud services built completely outside the security industry, ...
Posted 25 April 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Andrew Wild It’s clear there are many compelling reasons, both financial and productivity-related, for enterprises to move IT functionality into the cloud, so it’s not surprising that they’re moving quickly to adopt popular collaboration services like Box.net, Yammer, Jive, and ...
Posted 13 April 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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Secure Cloud – Myth or Reality?
By Chris Hinkley Cloud Security is not a myth. It can be achieved. The biggest hindrance on debunking this myth is for enterprise businesses to begin thinking about the Cloud differently. It is not the equipment of co-location dedicated servers, or on-premises technology, as it is changeable, flexi ...
Posted 19 March 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By David Lingenfelter Cloud computing brings with it new opportunities, new frontiers, new challenges, and new chances for loss of intellectual property. From hosting simple websites, to entire development environments, companies have been experimenting with cloud-based services for some time. Wh ...
Posted 12 March 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Todd Thiemann Whether driven by regulatory compliance or corporate mandates, sensitive data in the cloud needs protection along with access control. This usually involves encrypting data in transit as well as data at rest in some way, shape or form, and then managing the encryption keys to acces ...
Posted 12 March 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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Deprovisioning in the Cloud
By Jon-Michael C. Brook Let's be honest: how many of you have tried logging in to one of your former employer’s accounts? Maybe you had a CRM solution and you wanted to get the name of that guy who suggested he had the next hot idea. You didn't set your out-of-office message with your new/p ...
Posted 23 February 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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Opportunity Knocks Once…
By Henry St. Andre In 1983, I was a young electrical engineering student, when I took a job working for a small long distance company in Phoenix, Arizona. For me, Opportunity had Knocked and I had just opened the door on an amazing future. In the world of communications, things were already chang ...
Posted 10 February 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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Cloud Security: An Oxymoron?
By Torsten George Cloud computing represents today's big innovation trend in the information technology (IT) space. Because it allows organizations to deploy quickly, move swiftly, and share resources, cloud computing is rapidly replacing conventional in-house facilities at organizations of all siz ...
Posted 29 November 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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Cloud Security Considerations
By Ken Biery Can a cloud be as secure as a traditional network? In a word, yes! I agree that some may find this statement surprising. Depending on the network, that may be a low bar, but good security principles and approaches are just as applicable to cloud environments as they are to tradition ...
Posted 14 November 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Allen Allison Regardless of your industry, customer base, or product, it is highly likely that you face regulatory compliance requirements. If you handle Protected Health Information (PHI), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) – along with the HITECH enhancement ...
Posted 04 November 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Ken Biery This two-part guest blog series explores the topic of cloud security. Part one of the series focuses on the questions enterprise IT decision makers should ask when considering moving business applications to a cloud-based computing environment. There is no shortage of information abo ...
Posted 04 November 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Merritt Maximi A major benefit associated with deploying identity management and/or identity governance into an organization is that these solutions provide the ability to detect and remove orphan accounts. Orphan accounts refer to active accounts belonging to a user who is no longer involved w ...
Posted 07 October 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Michael Lin, Symantec Cloud computing appears here to stay, bringing with it new challenges and security risks on one hand, while on the other hand boasting efficiencies, cost savings and competitive advantage. With the new security risks of cloud and the mounting skill and cunning of today&rsqu ...
Posted 30 September 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Stuart Lisk File transfer has been around since the beginning of time. Ok, well maybe that is an exaggeration, but the point is, file transfer was one of the earliest uses of “network” computing dating back to the early 1970’s when IBM introduced the floppy disk. While we have ...
Posted 30 September 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Ed King The elephant in the room when it comes to barriers to the growth and adoption of cloud computing by enterprises is the lack of trust held for cloud service providers. Enterprise IT has legitimate concerns over the security, integrity, and reliability of cloud-based services. The r ...
Posted 14 September 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Oded Valin “When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.” There’s a lot we can identify with when it comes to reciting FedEx’s famous slogan, especially as it relates to modern file transfer processes. When you think about sharing health care records, financ ...
Posted 12 September 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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Five Ways to Achieve Cloud Compliance
By Allen Allison With the rapid adoption of cloud computing technologies, IT organizations have found a way to deliver applications and services more quickly and efficiently to their customers, incorporating the nearly ubiquitous utility-like platforms of managed cloud services companies. The use ...
Posted 26 August 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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By Rakesh Shah Recent high-profile security incidents heightened awareness of how Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can compromise the availability of critical websites, applications and services. Any downtime can result in lost business, brand damage, financial penalties, and lost prod ...
Posted 27 July 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
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