November 17, 2011
Major Cloud Providers to Participate in CSA STAR — CSA Security, Trust and Assurance Registry
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced that Google, Verizon, Intel, McAfee, and Microsoft plan to submit reports to the CSA Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR), a newly announced, free and publicly accessible registry that documents the security controls provided by various cloud computing offerings. In addition, major consumers of cloud services plan to require STAR reports moving forward, as part of their procurement process…
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