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Cloud Security Alliance Releases New Cloud Security For Startups Report

06:08:48 - 21 November 2017

New White Paper Helps Software-as-a-Service Startups Build Solid Security by Aligning Security Controls with Product Development and Investment Round

SEATTLE, Nov. 21, 2017/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TheCloud Security Alliance(CSA), the world's leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today released a new report titledCloud Security for Startups.  The new white paper, developed by the CSA'sIsrael chapter, aims to help Software-as-a-Service Startups (SaaS-SUs) gain and maintain customer trust by building solid security foundations at an early stage of the product development process. In establishing security controls to match risks at any point in time, SaaS-SUs can successfully align those controls with product development and investment rounds.

"Information security is a complicated subject even for mature enterprises, so it's no wonder that startups find the area so daunting," saidJohn Yeoh, Research Director at CSA.  "In today's risk environment, young startups find themselves challenged on how to best align security with current and future business growth. In creating this paper, we hope that startups, regardless of industry or geography, will find it a valuable tool in understanding, addressing and applying trusted and best practices for creating a secure computing environment."

Planning, implementing and maintaining good security is not only necessary, but can serve as an important advantage that can be leveraged as a marketing differentiator. Poor practices may result in dire consequences, ranging from longer sales cycles to the inability to raise additional funding. The guidelines provided inCloud Security for Startupshave been specifically created to help cloud-based startups develop public Infrastructure/Platform-as-a-Service (IaaS/PaaS) to understand their security roadmap.

Specifically, the report elaborates on the three phases in a startup's lifecycle, from inception to growth, and then to maturity, and suggests controls relevant to SaaS-SUs based on their current phase of development. Written to help company founders, CTOs, product managers and architects, the report divides controls into three domains: application security, platform security and security management. Additionally, the report addresses best practices and tips for choosing cloud platforms.

CSA will hold a webinar on Thursday, November 23at 2:00 pm CESTto provide insights and explanations and to answer questions surrounding the new whitepaper. To register for the webinar, visithttps://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/10415/284775.

TheCloud Security for Startups white paperis a free resource from the CSA.

About Cloud Security Alliance
 
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. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

 

SOURCE Cloud Security Alliance

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