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 and highly functional 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.

The CSA has had a significant positive impact on the state of cloud computing, helping the community advance both the security and functionality of new compute business models across multiple sectors of the economy.

In the federal space, technology decision-makers have engaged as members since the organization was founded in 2008. The CSA gained significant visibility in 2011 when the White House selected the CSA summit as the venue for announcing the federal government’s cloud computing strategy.

Cognitio has tracked and supported the CSA since the beginning. Our partner Bob Flores is one of many volunteers helping advance the state of security and functionality through collegial action there and a frequent speaker at CSA events.

The CSA’s federal summit will be held 5 May at the Ronald Reagan Building at 300 Pennsylvania Ave in DC to continue to advance concepts in cloud computing in the federal space.