BSI and CSA launch certification programme to improve confidence in cloud
September 25, 2013
Grazed from BusinessCloudNews. Author: Jonathan Brandon.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and the British Standards Institute (BSI) Wednesday announced the launch of a certification programme for cloud service providers designed to improve confidence in cloud computing among consumers and enterprises.
The STAR certification programme includes an assessment of the security of cloud service providers, measuring how well these companies measure up to the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 information management system standard, and the CSA Cloud Control Matrix, a set of 11 criteria developed by the organisation which measures the capability levels of the cloud service providers including compliance, data governance, facility security, human resources, information security, legal, operations management, risk management, release management, resiliency and security architecture…
The assessment will be administered by a CSA accredited body, in this case BSI, which will apply a “management capability” score to each of the abovementioned areas. Cloud service providers will then receive an internal report that gives them a sense of how mature their internal processes. These levels will be designated as either “No”, “Bronze”, “Silver” or “Gold,” and certified organization will be listed on the CSA STAR Registry as “STAR Certified.”…
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