Cloud Security Alliance Aims to Standardize the Safety of Cloud Computing
September 10, 2012
Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the creation of a Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group in the EU chaired by the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), to seek solutions to improve the security, development of cloud systems that respond to the challenges of cloud development in Hong Kong.
The possibilities of technology in the cloud and Big Data have become apparent in recent months. However, it has also become clear that we must establish protection systems for all that information. In order to design standard policies that ensure the protection of large volumes of information, the CSA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the use of best practices within cloud computing, has decided to create a working group to study this area…
Among the first PLA Working Group includes privacy officers, representatives from data protection authorities, data protection subject matter experts and independent privacy experts. The group has been created to begin defining compliance baselines for data protection legislation and standards for privacy measures such as data protection and data security.
“The goal of this Working Group is to create a structure for privacy disclosures that will provide both cloud providers and their customers with an objective and comparable way by which to communicate their personal data handling practices,” Daniele Catteddu, managing director, EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) for CSA, said in remarks. “This is especially problematic in the EU, which maintains the most stringent regulations on privacy as compared to the rest of the world. The PLA Working Group represents an important first step in establishing global standards for communicating the measures taken for protecting personal data in the cloud.”…
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