CSA Creates Open Cloud Security API Working Group
June 29, 2015
Grazed from ProgrammableWeb. Author: Michael Vizard.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) consortium today announced it has formed a working group spearheaded by CipherCloud, Deloitte, Infosys, Intel and SAP to define best practices and industry standards that ensure API interoperability across data protection and security services delivered via the cloud.
Still in the formative stages, the Cloud Security Open API Working Group will focus on defining a common set of APIs that will be used to create a set of cloud-independent description schema for phone numbers, names, email addresses, etc.; a set of classification schema to define data sensitivity levels; standard specifications of control actions for encryption, masking and data residency; and a specification of monitoring characteristics of cloud applications, says Chenxi Wang, vice president of cloud security and strategy at CipherCloud…
The goal, says Wang, is to enable vendor-neutral data security implementations to help accelerate cloud services adoption using standards-based APIs spanning encryption, tokenization and other data protection technologies across cloud environments. Wang says the immediate challenge the working group will face is trying to determine the right level of abstraction for the API specifications it intends to foster. Once that is determined, over the next six months the working group will focus on developing a set of open source APIs that will be readily accessible via repositories such as GitHub, says Wang…
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