Troy Leach joins Cloud Security Alliance as Chief Strategy Officer

Troy Leach has joined Cloud Security Alliance as Chief Strategy Officer, reporting to the offices of the CEO and President. The announcement comes five months after Leach joined CSA as Security Executive in Residence. In addition to focusing on corpora… Continue reading Troy Leach joins Cloud Security Alliance as Chief Strategy Officer

Cloud Security Alliance and Cyber Risk Institute develop CCM addendum for the financial sector

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced that it has partnered with the Cyber Risk Institute (CRI) to develop an addendum to its Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM), written specifically for the financial sector. For many years, the cloud was a tempting, al… Continue reading Cloud Security Alliance and Cyber Risk Institute develop CCM addendum for the financial sector

Cloud computing top concerns: The focus is shifting

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released the Top Threats to Cloud Computing: The Pandemic 11 report, which found a marked change in what cloud security provider (CSP) security issues are seen as concerning. New, more nuanced items, such as configurat… Continue reading Cloud computing top concerns: The focus is shifting

Best practices for healthcare delivery organizations to manage supply chain cybersecurity risks

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released a paper titled Healthcare Supply Chain Cybersecurity Risk Management. Drafted by the Health Information Management Working Group, the report provides best practices that healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs… Continue reading Best practices for healthcare delivery organizations to manage supply chain cybersecurity risks

The perils of SaaS misconfigurations

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released the findings of an Adaptive Shield survey, offering insight into the industry’s knowledge, attitudes, and opinions regarding SaaS security and related misconfigurations. “Many recent breaches and data leaks ha… Continue reading The perils of SaaS misconfigurations

The state of open source security in 2022

In this video for Help Net Security, Kurt Seifried, Chief Blockchain Officer and Director of Special Projects at Cloud Security Alliance, talks about the state of open source security in 2022. Open source is everywhere, it’s in everything, and ev… Continue reading The state of open source security in 2022

Organizations and the cloud: How they use it and how they secure it

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released the findings of its latest survey which offers insight into companies’ plans regarding cloud and security strategy, cloud services, and cloud-related technologies. “Cloud is a continuously evolving space with … Continue reading Organizations and the cloud: How they use it and how they secure it

Cloud Security Alliance releases guidance to help organizations optimize business outcomes

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released Cloud Key Management System with External Origin Key. Written by the Cloud Key Management Working Group to help organizations optimize such business outcomes as security, agility, cost, and compliance, the pap… Continue reading Cloud Security Alliance releases guidance to help organizations optimize business outcomes

Qualys Ransomware Risk Assessment Service helps organizations to proactively combat ransomware attacks

Qualys released its Ransomware Risk Assessment Service to provide companies with visibility into their ransomware exposure and automate the patching and configuration changes needed to reduce risk immediately. As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month a… Continue reading Qualys Ransomware Risk Assessment Service helps organizations to proactively combat ransomware attacks

Cloud Security Alliance announces inaugural members of the CSA CxO Trust Advisory Council

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the inaugural members of the CSA CxO Trust Advisory Council. The Council, whose membership is reserved exclusively for C-level executives of CSA’s Corporate Members, will contribute to and advise on the overa… Continue reading Cloud Security Alliance announces inaugural members of the CSA CxO Trust Advisory Council