CSA APAC Newsletter November & December 2016

Welcome to the CSA APAC Cloud Codebook!

​​A monthly newsletter, and your source for the most up-to-date news on CSA APAC Region.

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​​CSA APAC Research Activities
Check out our research activities!

Cloud Adoption and Security in India Survey Report

Cloud Security Alliance released the survey report on ‘State of Cloud Adoption in India’. This report was a part of the CSA APAC cloud adoption state initiative, which aims to provide insights on cloud adoption in different APAC countries, to recognize APAC countries which are leading the cloud adoption trend as well as to identify the the countries with opportunities for cloud computing adoption. In this report we found 2 pressing concerns:

• A lack of established industry standards within the Indian cloud computing industry is a lingering problem the country faces. Public cloud services offered in India by local providers are commonly proprietary to a great extent, which may pose challenges for cloud consumers in case they wanted to develop a global IT strategy; not to mention moving from one cloud provider to another. In addition, the current state of relevant national standards in India is not compatible and aligned with global standards.
• Another key finding from the survey is that Indian organizations are extremely concerned about security, especially data sovereignty. Organizations are most worried about their data on the cloud. Data breach and data loss are major concerns of organizations from a cloud security perspective.

To view the full report, please click here.

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CSA Events and Activities
The latest updates about CSA APAC events and activities.

CSA Suzhou Chapter Summit, 18th November, Suzhou, China

The Suzhou Chapter conducted our inaugural CSA Suzhou summit on 18th Nov 2016 at The 2.5 Industrial Park, Suzhou. The half day summit included honored guests from Science and Technology Bureau and Suzhou Industrial Park and other cloud security-related corporations. Zuoqian Jiang, the Secretary General of CSA greater China region and Dejia Wang, the chairman of CSA Suzhou chapter, attended the opening ceremony.

CSA Corporate Member Forum, 21st November, Bengaluru, India

The CSA Corporate Member Forum was held on 21st November in Bengaluru, India where we met many of our members in this region. During the session, Jim Reavis, Co-founder & CEO of Cloud Security Alliance presented on CSA's 2017 Strategies & Plans and Aloysius Cheang, EVP APAC of Cloud Security Alliance shared on the work that was done in APAC in 2016 and the plans here in APAC for 2017.

CSA APAC Congress 2016, 22nd-23rd November, Bengaluru, India

The team had successfully hosted its 4th CSA APAC Congress on 22nd-23rd November in Bengaluru, India.  This was a two-day event which saw delegates from over 300 international government organizations, industry, academia and professionals attending with compelling presentations and interesting discussions about research, development, practice and trends related to cloud security.

​The conference featured some of the region’s and world’s most influential minds in information security and cloud computing including:

• Shri. Ajay Kumar, Additional Secretary at Ministry of Electronics & Information technology 
• Rajiv R. Chetwani, Director Information Systems Programme Office at ISRO
• Sri. Raj Kumar Srivastava, IFS , Managing Director , Karnataka State Electronics,Development Corporation Limited
• Dr. Amar Prasad Reddy, Director General at National Cyber- Safety & Security Standards
• Jim Reavis, Co-founder & CEO of Cloud Security Alliance
• Dr. Meng Chow Kang, Chief Information Security Officer, APJC Region at Cisco Systems, Inc. 
• Juanita Koilpillai, Founder & CEO of Waverley Labs
• Rudra Murthy, CISO, Digital India at Ministry of Home Affairs
• Dr. Vikram Sharma, Founding Director & Chief Executive Officer at Quintessence Labs
• Clayton Jones, Managing Director Asia- Pacific, (ISC)²​

​CSA New Zealand Summit 2016, 5th December, Wellington, New Zealand

The second CSA New Zealand Summit was held on 5th December at MBIE Wellington, co-located at the STRATUS meeting.

The event featured the following topics:

• Cloud Governance, Sai Honig, Senior Security Consultant at Aura Information Security
• Cloud Security Alliance and STRATUS, Mickey Law, Research Analyst at Cloud Security Alliance
• Doing the right thing - security and the UX, Andrew Parker
  Director, Cyber, Wellington at PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Panel Discussion: Cloud Adoption Challenges in New Zealand    

         Sai Honig, Senior Security Consultant at Aura Information Security​​
        Andrew Parker, Director, Cyber, Wellington at PwC
        Andrew Scothern, Software Development Manager at Gallagher

​CSA CXO Luncheon, 8th December, Singapore

CSA CXO Luncheon was held at Mandarin Orchard Singapore, on the 8th of December, 2016. CXOs from both the public and private sectors were in attendance. Axway and CA Technologies were the sponsor for the event. During the event, Ian Tan, Regional Sales Director, of Axway presented API Firewalling and Protection of WEB-APIs. Donald Teo, Solution Account Director, CA Technologies, ASEAN, of CA Technologies presented on Identity Centric Economy and Anthony Lim, Market Strategy Director APAC, of CSA shared a full year review of what we have done here in APAC and what can be expected in 2017. 

​CSA CXO Luncheon, 14th December, Hong Kong

CSA CXO Luncheon was held at Hong Kong Jockey Club, on the 14th of December, 2016. CXOs from both the public and private sectors were in attendance. Anthony Lim, Market Strategy Director APAC, of CSA shared a full year review of what we have done here in APAC and what can be expected next year. 

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​​Upcoming Events
Come and Join Us!

  CSA APAC Events​

• ​CSA APAC Summit, 10 April, Singapore
• CSA APAC Financial Cloud Forum, 24 May, Hong Kong
• CSA Hong Kong & Macau Summit, 25 May, Hong Kong
• CSA APAC Innovation Conference, 13 July, Singapore
• CSA Government Cybersecurity Forum, 12 October, Tokyo, Japan
• CSA APAC Congress, 15-16 November, Sydney, Australia

CSA APAC-Supported Events

• ​Interpol World, 5-7 July, Singapore

         More information over here!

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​​Contact Us
Co-Editors for this Newsletter:
Mickey Law - Research Analyst
Mobile: +65 8245 6352
Email: [email protected]

Shuqi Huang - Research Analyst
Mobile: +65 9489 9911
Email: [email protected]
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If you are interested in getting involved with the Cloud Security Alliance regarding:
Chapter Management, please contact:
Ekta Mishra, [email protected]

Corporate Membership, please contact:
Anthony Lim, [email protected]

CSA APAC Event Information, Including Sponsorship and Chapter Study Trips, please contact:
Shuqi Huang, [email protected]
Ekta Mishra, [email protected]

Research, please contact:
Dr. Ryan Ko, [email protected]
Mickey Law, [email protected]

CCSK and Educational, please contact:
Lynne Yang, [email protected]

CSA STAR, please contact:
Shuqi Huang, [email protected]

Standardisation, please contact:
Mickey Law, [email protected] and/or either of the
CSA International Council co-chairs
Eric Hibbard, [email protected] or
Andreas Fuchsberger, [email protected]

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