9 May 2012: At the opening of the SecureCloud 2012 conference, the Cloud Security Alliance(CSA) has announced the CSA Open Certification Framework, an industry initiative to allow global, trusted certification of cloud providers.
The CSA Open Certification Framework is a program for flexible, incremental and multi-layered cloud provider certification according to the Cloud Security Alliance’s security guidance and control objectives. The program will support popular third-party assessment and attestation statements developed within the public accounting community.
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