Is the future secure?
                                                      Brian Honan
                                  CSA - UK & Ireland Chapter
                                               Copyright © 2012 Cloud Security Alliance – UK &                    www.cloud-security.org.uk
                                                                    Ireland
                 Cloud Security Alliance
                   • Global, not-for-profit organization
                   • Over 23,000 individual members, 100 corporate 
                              members, 50 chapters
                   • Building best practices and a trusted cloud 
                              ecosystem
                   • Agile philosophy, rapid development of applied 
                              research
                           • GRC: Balance compliance with risk management
                           • Reference models: build using existing standards
                           • Identity: a key foundation of a functioning cloud economy
                           • Champion interoperability
                           • Enable innovation
                           • Advocacy of prudent public policy
                         “To promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance 
                                 within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud 
                                                     Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.”
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                   UK & Ireland chapter
                   • Over 2,000 individual members
                   • Focused on Information Risk 
                              Management
                          “To provide the guidance and tools required to allow 
                                               business and home users of cloud services to 
                                                 manage risks to their information in order to 
                                                     embrace the opportunities afforded by the 
                                            interconnected information society of the 21st 
                                                                                                                               century.”
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                   We’re going on a 
                   journey…
                      …from the Knights 
                      Templar to Jeremy 
                      Clarkson, onto James 
                      May and beyond!
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                   What is it to be secure?
                    “the state of being free from danger or 
                    threat”
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