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CSA prioritises mobility, innovation

By Nadine Arendse
Johannesburg, 02 Mar 2012

CSA prioritises mobility, innovation

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) revealed two significant new initiatives for 2012, addressing growing areas of need in cloud security - mobile computing and innovation, Market Watch writes.

The CSA's initiatives in these areas will focus on accelerating delivery of a trusted cloud ecosystem, furthering the organisation's mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing.

Computerworld says that, according to the CSA, the open market has produced inadequate information security for cloud computing.

The effort revealed, perhaps with the broadest impact, is the CSA's Innovation Initiative. "In the past year, there's been a dramatic increase in the rise of cloud security awareness," says Jim Reavis, co-founder and executive director of the CSA.

For innovation, the CSA said it will identify key structural issues for trust and security to get more people to adopt the cloud; incubate technology to help align principles of the cloud with gaps they've found; and articulate guiding principles innovators should address, CenterBeam notes.

For mobile cloud computing, the CSA wants to resolve issues with usage, push forward cloud-based mobile device management, and secure application store and other entities putting programs on devices.