Showing posts with label cloud security alliance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloud security alliance. Show all posts

Mar 3, 2011

Meet the BoD of the CSA, Canada Chapter

After a long nomination period for election to the Board of Directors, it all came down to one candidate per position after a few withdrawals.

The BoD for the CSA, Canada Chapter is:
Chairperson--Brian Baird
Vice Chairperson--Tyson Macaulay
PR/Communications--Pano Xinos
Secretary/Membership--Ron Boulanger
Education--Jon Whittington
Treasurer--Geofferey Chen


Membership is also growing steadily. The CSA, Canada Chapter LinkedIn subgroup is now up to 50 members up from the 23 we had at the time of our kickoff call in mid January.

May 31, 2010

Cloud Security Alliance - Canada Chapter

I've decided that I'm going to start working on building the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) - Canada Chapter. There seems to be interest so I thought I would write up a quick entry to see if anyone was interested in joining the Canadian chapter.

The CSA is a fledgling organization dedicated to "promote the use of best practices for providing security within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing." As of this posting, there are 2 official chapters and 5 chapters in development. In addition, there are several working groups:
Group 1. Architecture and Framework
Group 2. Governance, Risk Management, Compliance, Audit, Physical, BCM, DR
Group 3. Legal and eDiscovery
Group 4. Portability & Interoperability and Application Security
Group 5. Identity and Access Mgt, Encryption & Key Mgt
Group 6. Data Center Operations and Incident Response
Group 7. Information Lifecycle Management & Storage
Group 8. Virtualization and Technology Compartmentalization
Editorial Group
Educational Working Group
Solution Provider Advisory Council

It's obvious to me that the questions of governance and security (issues important to me) are not going to go away by themselves. Nor should it be left solely to industry to develop competing views/models/tools - it's simply inefficient. It behooves us, the denizens of the industry, to help in those efforts.

Please let me know if you are interested in joining the CSA - Canada Chapter by sending your coordinates (name, company, title, email, phone) to pano(dot)xinos(at)gmail(dot)com.

[Edit: added working groups. --PX--]