by Linksku

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders.

Three years after the concept for CSA was born, many official regional chapters have been established to help companies and individuals succeed in secure adoption of Cloud Computing.

CSA chapter members are composed primarily of individual members. The CSA chapter must have a minimum of 20 members, who must already be established as CSA members. Members should represent a reasonable effort to include a credible group of cloud security experts for your region.

Chapters are a great way to further your knowledge of cloud computing security issues, and network with local peers facing the same challenges in securing cloud computing.

If you are interested in starting a local chapter, information is contained in the .

Here is a complete list (as of Oct. 17th 2011) of the official CSA chapters:

 

Atlanta Chapter

Region: City of Atlanta
Areas of Interest: CSP Maturity Model and Contractual Guidance

Organizer: Dave Shackleford

 

Beijing Chapter

Region: City of Beijing
Organizer: Richard Zhao

 

Brazilian Chapter

Region: Country of Brazil
Areas of Interest: Development of an educational guide to new cloud customers, Portuguese translations of CSA research

Organizer: Leonardo Goldim

 

Central America Chapter

Region: Central America Region
Areas of Interest: Risk Analysis Guidelines

Organizer: Jorge Higueros

 

Chile Chapter

Region: Country of Chile
Areas of Interest: CCSK education and University outreach

Organizer: Carlos Samaniego

 

Egypt Chapter

Region: Country of Egypt
Areas of Interest: Virtualization Security and Identification of Cloud Vulnerabilities

Organizer: Mohamed El-Refaey

 

French Chapter

Region: Country of France
Areas of Interest: Terminology and Translation, Communication, and Reversibility

Organizer: Olivier Caleff and Pierre Vacherand

 

Guangzhou Chapter

Region: City of Guangzhou
Organizer: Jun Shen

 

Israeli Chapter

Region: Country of Israel
Areas of Interest: Incubation of cloud security technology innovations, and localization of CSA best practices
Website: http://wiki.csail.dreamhosters.com/wiki/Main_Page

Organizer: Guy Alfassi and Hadass Harel

 

Italian Chapter

Region: Country of Italy
Areas of Interest: Portablity, Interoperability and Application Security
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/italy/

Organizer: Alberto Manfredi

 

Japanese Chapter

Region: Country of Japan
Areas of Interest: Adapt CSA Research to Japanese market
Website: http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.jp/

Organizer: Ben Katsumi

 

Korea Chapter

Region: Country of Korea
Areas of Interest: Adapting CSA Research to Korean market, CCSK education, Identity issues

Organizer: Yoseph Lee

Mumbai Chapter

Region: Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane
Areas of Interest: Cloud Computing Architectural Framework, Governance and Enterprise Risk Management, Application Security, Identity and Access Management

Organizer: Keith Prabhu

 

Netherlands Chapter

Region: Country of the Netherlands
Areas of Interest: Continuity in the Cloud, Risk of Data Storage in the cloud, and Identity from the Cloud
Website: https://chapters.cloudsecurityalliance.org/netherlands/

Organizer: Wilco van Ginkel

 

Russian Chapter

Region: Country of the Russia
Areas of Interest: Localization of CSA Global research papers and guidelines, adopting CSA Global best practices to Russian IT Security legislation, development of recommendations for Russian cloud services consumers, establishing relations with Russian cloud service providers and interacting with them in order to improve IT Security management and compliance with best practices
Website: http://www.risspa.ru/

Organizer: Evgeny Klimov

 

Seattle Chapter

Region: City of Seattle
Areas of Interest: Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing

Organizer: Vivek Bhatnagar

 

Shanghai Chapter

Region: City of Shanghai
Organizer: Billy Lee and York Shen

 

Silicon Valley Chapter

Region: Silicon Valley and Vicinity
Areas of Interest: Innovation

Organizer: Srinivas Jaini

 

Singapore Chapter

Region: Country of Singapore
Areas of Interest: 1. Promote the secure adoption of Cloud Computing in Singapore. | 2. Cloud Computing Education and Certification.

Organizer: William Ho

 

Spanish Chapter (CSA-ES)

Region: Country of Spain
Areas of Interest: Compliance
Website: http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.es/

Organizer: Jesús Luna and Nathaly Rey

 

United Kingdom & Ireland Chapter

Region: United Kingdom & Ireland
Areas of Interest: Management of risks to information within the cloud
Website: http://www.cloud-security.org.uk/

Organizer: Des Ward and Gerry O’Neill

 

Washington DC Metro Area Chapter

Region: Washington DC Metro Area
Areas of Interest: Federal Cloud Security Center of Expertise.
Website: http://www.csadc.us/

Organizer: Bhavesh Bhagat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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