Achieving Security Assurance and Compliance in the Cloud Jim Reavis , Executive Director

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Achieving Security Assurance and Compliance in the Cloud

Jim Reavis, Executive Director

http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/



Cloud: Ushering in “IT Spring”Cloud – a simple idea

Compute as a utilityAlign technology costs with usage

Challenges our assumptions about everything

Barriers to market entry in any industryOrganizational structure and business planningInvestment, venture capital, Research & Development

Driving a new macroeconomic reality“Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.” Aristotle





The Revolution Has Tinder

Social networking, blogging and mircoblogging

Egalitarianism of media and communicationsMobile computing

Empowering the citizensCloud computing

Egalitarianism of ITWhat can’t this change?Timing is everything





What is Cloud Computing?

Compute as a utility: third major era of computingCloud enabled by

Moore’s LawHyperconnectivitySOAProvider scale

Key characteristicsElastic & on-demandMulti-tenancyMetered service

IaaS may track energy costs





5

2011-2014: The Hybrid Enterprise

enterprise boundary

public clouds

Extended Virtual Data Center

private clouds

cloud of users

Notional organizational

boundary

Cloud + MobileDispersal of applicationsDispersal of dataDispersal of usersDispersal of endpoint devices





Cloud Forcing Key IssuesCritical mass of separation between data owners and data processorsAnonymity of geography of data centers & devicesAnonymity of providerTransient provider relationshipsPhysical controls must be replaced by virtual controlsIdentity management has a key role to playCloud WILL drive change in the security status quoReset button for security ecosystem





What are the Trust Issues?

Will my cloud provider be transparent about governance and operational issues? Will I be considered compliant?Do I know where my data is?Will a lack of standards drive unexpected obsolescence? Is my provider really better at security than me?Are the hackers waiting for me in the cloud?Will I get fired?





Key Problems of Tomorrow

Keeping pace with cloud changesGlobally incompatible legislation and policyNon-standard Private & Public cloudsLack of continuous Risk Management & Compliance monitoringIncomplete Identity Management implementationsHaphazard response to security incidents





About the Cloud Security Alliance

Global, not-for-profit organizationOver 23,000 individual members, 100 corporate members, 50 chaptersBuilding best practices and a trusted cloud ecosystemAgile philosophy, rapid development of applied research

GRC: Balance compliance with risk managementReference models: build using existing standardsIdentity: a key foundation of a functioning cloud economyChampion interoperabilityEnable innovationAdvocacy 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.”




HOW DO WE BUILD THE “TRUSTED CLOUD?”




Here’s How…

StrategyEducationSecurity FrameworkAssessmentBuild for the Future





StrategyIT Architecture supporting Hybrid enterprise

Federated IdMService Oriented Architecture “loose coupling” principles

Consider cloud as an option to any new IT initiative

What are the cost differences?What are the feature/functionality differences?Does the application support different cloud deployments and multiple providers?

Risk ManagementSensitivity of application and data, new risks introduced by cloud, risk tolerance levels




EDUCATION




CSA Guidance ResearchPopular best practices for securing cloud computingFlagship research projectV2.1 released 12/2009V3 research underway, targeting Q3 2011 releasewiki.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance

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Governing the Cloud

Guidance > 100k downloads: cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance



http://cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance

http://cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance



Guidance Highlights – 1/2

Governance, ERM: Secure the cloud before procurement – contracts, SLAs, architectureGovernance, ERM: Know provider’s third parties, BCM/DR, financial viability, employee vettingLegal: Plan for provider termination & return of assetsCompliance: Identify data location when possibleILM: Persistence, ProtectionPortability & Interoperability: SOA “loose coupling” principles





Guidance Highlights – 2/2

BCM/DR: provider redundancy vs. your ownDC Ops: provisioning, patching, loggingEncryption: encrypt data when possible, segregate key mgt from cloud providerAppSec: Adapt secure software development lifecycleVirtualization: Harden, rollback, port VM imagesIdM: Federation & standards e.g. SAML, OpenID





Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)

Benchmark of cloud security competencyMeasures mastery of CSA guidance and ENISA cloud risks whitepaperUnderstand cloud issuesLook for the CCSKs at cloud providers, consulting partnersOnline web-based examinationwww.cloudsecurityalliance.org/certifyme



http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/certifyme



Training Courses CCSK Basic

One day course to enable student to pass CCSK

CCSK Plus Two day course includes practical cloud lab work

GRC Stack Training One day course to use GRC Stack components

PCI/DSS In the Cloud Achieving PCI compliance in cloud computing

http://cloudsecurityalliance.org/education/training/



http://cloudsecurityalliance.org/education/training/



Upcoming Conferences

CSA Summit Korea, Sept. 29, SeoulCSA Summit Europe, Oct. 10, London (with RSA Europe)CSA Congress, Nov. 16-17, OrlandoCSA Summit RSA, Feb. 27, 2012, San FranciscoSecureCloud 2012 (partnership with ENISA)




SECURITY FRAMEWORK




CSA Reference ModelCSA Cloud Reference Model

IaaS (Compute & storage) is the foundationPaaS (Rapid application dev) adds middleware to IaaSSaaS represents complete applications on top of PaaS





Cloud Controls MatrixControls derived from guidanceMapped to familiar frameworks: ISO 27001, COBIT, PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, FedRAMPRated as applicable to S-P-ICustomer vs Provider roleHelp bridge the “cloud gap” for IT & IT auditors




ASSESSMENT




Assessment Responsibility





Consensus Assessment Initiative

Research tools and processes to perform shared assessments of cloud providersIntegrated with Controls MatrixVersion 1 CAI Questionnaire released Oct 2010, approximately 140 provider questions to identify presence of security controls or practices Use to assess cloud providers today, procurement negotiation, contract inclusion, quantify SLAswww.cloudsecurityalliance.org/cai.html



http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/cai.html



CSA STAR RegistryCSA STAR (Security, Trust and Assurance Registry)Public Registry of Cloud Provider self assessmentsBased on Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire

Provider may substitute documented Cloud Controls Matrix compliance

Voluntary industry action promoting transparencyFree market competition to provide quality assessments

Provider may elect to provide assessments from third parties

Available October 2011




BUILD FOR THE FUTURE




CSA GRC StackFamily of 4 research projects

Cloud Controls MatrixConsensus Assessments InitiativeCloud AuditCloud Trust Protocol

Tools for governance, risk and compliance managementEnabling automation and continuous monitoring of GRC

Control Requirements

Provider Assertions

Private, Community

& Public Clouds





CloudAudit

Open standard and API to automate provider audit assertionsChange audit from data gathering to data analysis Necessary to provide audit & assurance at the scale demanded by cloud providersUses Cloud Controls Matrix as controls namespace Use to instrument cloud for continuous controls monitoring





Cloud Trust Protocol (CTP)

Developed by CSC, transferred to CSAOpen standard and API to verify control assertions“Question and Answer” asynchronous protocol, leverages SCAP (Secure Content Automation Protocol)Integrates with Cloud AuditNow we have all the components for continuous controls monitoring





CloudSIRT

Consensus research for emergency response in Cloud

Enhance community’s ability to respond to incidentsStandardized processesSupplemental best practices for SIRTsHosted Community of Cloud SIRTswww.cloudsecurityalliance.org/cloudsirt.html



http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/cloudsirt.html



Trusted Cloud InitiativeComprehensive Cloud Security Reference ArchitectureSecure & interoperable Identity in the cloudGetting SaaS, PaaS to be “Relying Parties” for corporate directoriesScalable federationOutline responsibilities for Identity ProvidersAssemble reference architectures with existing standardswww.cloudsecurityalliance.org/trustedcloud.html



http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/trustedcloud.html



Reference Model Structure

TCI Reference Architecture





Security as a ServiceInformation Security Industry re-inventedDefine Security as a ServiceArticulate solution categories within Security as a ServiceGuidance for adoption of Security as a ServiceAlign with other CSA researchDevelop deliverables as a proposed 14th domain within CSA Guidance Version 3.www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/secaas.html



http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/secaas.html



Data Governance Project

Survey of current Cloud Provider data governance practices in the market (e.g. backup, encryption, secure deletion, etc.)Structure based on Domain 5: Information Lifecycle MgtProject co-sponsored by CSA Silicon Valley and CSA SingaporeTarget Sept. 2011 Report releaseCharter and participation info to be posted on CSA website 1st week of August.





What Might Cloud 2.0 Look Like?

Less centralized than you think: cloud brokering, SOA, REST, evade energy costs, gridRegulated – if we don’t do it ourselvesDisruptive technologies, e.g. format preserving encryption, new secure hypervisors, Identity Management everywhereNew cloud business app modelsGreater policy harmonization (maritime law?)4 of 10 biggest IT companies of 2020 do not exist





Going to the Cloud Securely

Challenges remainMore tools available than you thinkWaiting not an optionMany types of cloudsIdentify IT options appropriate for specific cloudLeverage business drivers & risk managementBe Agile!





Contact

Help Us Secure Cloud Computingwww.cloudsecurityalliance.orginfo@cloudsecurityalliance.orgLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1864210Twitter: @cloudsa




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THANK YOU!


Achieving Security Assurance and Compliance in the Cloud Jim Reavis , Executive Director

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