Newest paper offers clearly defined security responsibilities for vendors, customers across various cloud-service models
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SINGAPORE – October 11, 2018 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today released its latest research report, “Guidelines on Effectively Managing the Security Service in the Cloud.” The paper was announced at the annual APAC Summit held in conjunction with Cloud Expo Asia 2018 and provides cloud service providers (CSP) and their customers with clear-cut recommendations for building and managing cloud security services.
 
Authored by the Cloud Security Services Management (CSSM) Working Group, the new guidelines address a critical need stemming from today’s widespread usage of cloud—clearly defined security responsibilities for both vendors and their customers across various cloud-service models. While the shared responsibility model provides excellent guidance, many of the standards and specifications it touches upon target CSPs’ security responsibilities rather than those of customers, especially those with little to no cloud security knowledge.

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – August 20, 2018 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, and Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) today released the results of a joint survey, Cloud Adoption in the Malaysia FSI Sector, which surveyed IT and security professionals in Malaysia’s FSI about their cloud service adoption plans and priorities. The results were announced in Kuala Lumpur at the inaugural CSA Malaysia Summit, where Dato’ Ng Wan Peng, COO of MDEC; Jim Reavis, co-founder & CEO of CSA; and Ramesh Narayanaswamy, CIOO of CIMB Group Holdings were among the keynote speakers.

As a part of the Summit, CSA also organized a Roundtable on “Banking 4.0 – Digital Transformation, Opportunities & Challenges” aimed to work on the next level study of the survey conducted. This Roundtable was sponsored by Microsoft.

Although heavily regulated internationally, today’s financial services institutions (FSI) face similar pressures experienced by their compatriots in lesser-regulated sectors. There is an urgent need to embrace digital transformation to leapfrog competitors, enhance agility, and increase efficiency to better serve the modern digital consumer in this fast-paced economy. Significantly higher confidence levels in cloud security today have rendered the cloud a key enabler in overcoming these challenges. Seeing this trend, CSA and MDEC jointly conducted the “Cloud Adoption in the Malaysia FSI Sector” survey to gain a deeper understanding of the current and future state of cloud adoption in the region.

Bangalore, India - June 15, 2018. Source: https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/06/view-from-india-cloud-computing-on-the-rise-in-india/ 

India's role as a major stakeholder in cloud computing is increasing, with Bangalore identified as the country's IT hub.

India’s role as a major stakeholder in cloud computing is increasing. Since Bangalore is identified as the country’s IT hub, it is only natural that the Bangalore Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is in the process of formalising its chapter deeper and further strengthening its position in Bangalore. The CSA defines itself as a global organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment.

Cloud represents the future of an agile enterprise and its benefits are being passed on to consumers through which new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and quantum computing.

“The requirements in cloud are growing globally and this opens out opportunities for building a professionally trained workforce that can handle the emerging requirements of the cloud security system”, said Sandip Kumar Panda, chairman, CSA Bangalore Chapter, speaking at the CSA Bangalore Summit held on June 14, 2018.

Source: https://disruptive.asia/fintech-players-cloud/ 

​FinTech services are all the rage at the moment, and one reason for that is the prevalence of cloud computing platforms that enable such services. Which is ironic, given that traditional banks and financial institutions have been famously conservative about cloud adoption – even private clouds seemed risky compared to closed proprietary networks under their control. FinTech start-ups, on the other hand, have wholeheartedly embraced cloud as an enabler to break into the finance business quickly.
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Dr Hing-Yan Lee, executive vice president of APAC for the Cloud Security Alliance, talks to Disruptive.Asia editor John C Tanner about the role of cloud in the FinTech explosion, and the security and compliance challenges that come with the territory.

Singaporeans can now receive subsidies for CCSK training

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, is pleased to announce that its Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) course has successfully completed course mapping under CITREP+
 
Through this recognition, attendees who are Singapore citizens and permanent residents can attend the 3-day CCSK training course at subsidised costs under the Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme Plus (CITREP+) as a part of TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA), a programme which supports local professionals and working professionals to continuously reskill and stay abreast of the latest in-demand technical skills, to remain valued and competitive in Singapore. Singaporeans and permanent residents are also eligible for CITREP+ funding to take the CCSK examination.

Source: ​https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:21878:dis:ed-1:v1:en
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At the Inaugural Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Philippines Summit held on 11 July 2017, twenty-seven leading IT companies and start-ups demonstrated innovations across sectors of Cloud technology including Security, Datacenter, Enterprise, Mobile Apps, and E-Commerce.
The CSA PH Summit was held at the Golden Ballroom of Okada Manila, and attracted over 282 C-levels, government dignitaries, and decision makers. The one-day Summit had over 700 in attendance – the largest number of attendees at Okada Manila for an event of this type.
Dr. Lee Hing-Yan, Executive Vice President of CSA APAC, and Hon. Raymund Liboro, Chairman of National Privacy Commission, opened the Summit addressing both international and local insights on Cloud Security and Data Privacy respectively. The event was also attended by high-profile individuals in the tech and IT industry

​For the fifth year in a row, Indonesia CIO Network (ICION) with CSA Indonesia Chapter and Kominfo as the main supporting organizations will host ‘ICION 5th Annual Bali Conference 2017’. The Two Days Conference and workshop featuring Speakers,Track Leads from ICION, CSA and Kominfo will be held at INAYA PUTRI BALI RESORT (http://inayahotels.com) Nusa Nua, Bali a five star resort from the 1st until 3rd March 2017.

ICION 2017 will be addressing the technologies needed in the Digital Era. The IT Technologies involved in need to be transformative to help organization compete in the digital area. Typically new technologies open up new vulnerabilities for attackers hence the theme for 2017 emphasis is on transformative technologies yet “secured”.
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Anthony Lim, Market Strategy Director, APAC of Cloud Security Alliance said “Cloud adoption is increasing today tremendously, and there are new interfaces like mobile app, cloud-borne services and IoT.  Organizations are torn between the benefits of cloud, versus the security concerns.  CSA will be sharing the initiatives and frameworks that help cloud adoption become safer.”
For more information on the event, please visit: www.icion-leadership.com