Securing Your Cloud following CSA Standards

As the Cloud computing model matures in capability and grows in scope, the necessity of having a universal set of security guidelines will become imperative. As such, Clone Systems is an active advocate of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a new consortium of technology companies engaged in creating parameters by which Cloud computing environments can be best secured.

Some of the broad objectives of the CSA group are:

Creating a common understanding between the consumers and providers of cloud computing pertaining to security

requirements.
Independent and objective research into best practices for cloud computing and associated security solutions.
Sponsoring awareness campaigns and educational programs on uses for cloud computing and the application of cloud

security.
Creating consensus lists of issues and guidance for cloud security assurance.

It should come as no surprise that Clone Systems, which is above all else concerned with securing your enterprise, your data, and your network infrastructure, would be at the vanguard of new collaborative efforts to improve and codify security standards for new technologies. Our veteran staff of technologists and engineers is well-positioned to ensure your Cloud – private, public, or hybrid – will conform to the most recent recommendations from CSA, in each of the areas being defined and described by the organization.

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Our stature in the network security community is well established, and it is contingent upon our staff to be perpetually informed of new security guidelines and industry initiatives, and the technologies that can be used to implement them. It is our experience that the synergy between the broader IT community, security specialists like our company, and technology vendors must be an agile one in which new developments in one area will reframe strategies for all involved.

Clone Guard^® CG-SECCL^®, our CSA implementation solution, addresses each of the organization’s twelve domains included in the security framework:

Cloud Computing Architectural Framework
Governance and Enterprise Risk Management Domain
Legal and Electronic Discovery
Compliance and Audit Domain
Information Lifecycle Management
Portability and Interoperability
Traditional Security, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery
Data Center Operations
Incident Response, Notification, and Remediation
Application Security
Encryption and Key Management
Identity and Access Management
Virtualization

Like any set of guidelines created by companies with different sets of purposes and interests, it is rapidly evolving. However these concepts are fundamentally sound. Clone Systems, in fact, uses a large percentage of the recommendations in each area as best practices solutions, and has done so for years. With the growth of Cloud computing, however, and our wholesale use of private Clouds in many of our product offerings, we want our clients to have the confidence that the security provisions we use are endorsed not only by us but by Google, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, AT&T, and other prominent technology companies.

Adopting CSA’s standards for guidelines allows us to learn from the real-world deployment issues encountered by all of member companies and to avoid potential solutions that would invite any type of security risk. This synergistic approach is both quite practical and widely beneficial for all who participate.

All of our current private Cloud solutions are being implemented with current CSA guidelines. Like anything in this emerging realm, though, best practices will change and our methodologies and technology selection will change accordingly. We can leverage this knowledge of CSA and security expertise in general to provide your Cloud implementation the most secure framework possible, and maintain them as they necessarily evolve.

Clone Systems welcomes becoming your partner in achieving state-of-the-art security provisions for your Cloud. Contact a company representative for more information on how CSA security would impact your enterprise, and how Clone Guard^® CG-SECCL^® can make the adherence both technically seamless and economical for your company.