The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products.

CSA’s activities, knowledge and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and the assurance industry — and provide a forum through which diverse parties can work together to create and maintain a trusted cloud ecosystem.

CSA Bangalore chapter is one of CSA’s most active chapters in India in research and is led by professionals who are experts in Cloud & Information Security domains. One of the key objectives of the chapter is to promote awareness on Cloud Security and in order to achieve this, members of the chapter periodically conduct talk sessions and publish whitepapers.

A platform to incubate ideas through research to build and sustain secure cloud environment

Creating and sharing best practices in building security embedded cloud environment by promoting collaboration between industry and academia

Discuss

To provide a platform for exchange of ideas, research, sharing best practices and discussions among various industry sectors to improve assurance techniques, approaches, and problem solving in Cloud computing governance, security, control and assurance.

Connect

To build a forum for like minded people in Cloud computing to connect and network with other industry members to improve their cloud computing skills, and industry knowledge

Communication

To promote adequate communication to keep members abreast of current developments and trends in Cloud computing governance, security, control and assurance and assurance techniques, approaches that can be of benefit to them and their employers

Research

To initiate, develop, coordinate, sustain research work in order to produce research papers, reports and findings for the benefit of the members,member organizations, and industries to improve cloud security controls .