Cloud Security Alliance, (ISC)² Team Up on New Cloud Security Certification

Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.

Cloud security remains a big concern for solution providers and vendors alike, which is one of the reasons why two leading industry organizations have collaborated to offer a new certification that will ensure VARs have the training and experience they need to properly secure their customers’ clouds.

The (ISC)² and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) are now offering the Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certification, which will require solution providers to have advanced skills required for cloud security. They also aim to establish an international standard for professional-level knowledge in the design, implementation and management of cloud environments, according to a Cloud Security Alliance press release…

The organizations unveiled the CCSP at the recent RSA conference. (ISC)² is a nonprofit comprised of more than 100,000 certified information and software security professionals worldwide, while the CSA is an industry organization aimed at defining and raising awareness of best practices for secure cloud computing…

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