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The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization, the goal of which

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Question

The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization, the goal of which is to promote education on cloud security issues. The Cloud Security Alliance consists of a large coalition of cloud practitioners, companies, associations, and other cloud stakeholders. Visit the Cloud Security Alliance website. Produce a list of cloud security topics one should understand in preparation for taking the cloud knowledge certification exam.

Support your discussion with information and examples from your text and your experiences.

Explanation / Answer

CCSK Key Examination Concepts

CSA Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing V3.0 English

Domain 1 Architecture

                Models, Cloud Deployment etc.)

SLA can act as a tool for protecting the stability of the service, protecting the assets of the company and minimizing the expense should drastic actions be required

Domain 2: Governance and Enterprise Risk Management

Domain 3: Legal Issues

Prepare yourself about cloud computing legal considerations and why organizations need to carefully evaluate legal considerations and perform due diligence before signing on with a cloud service provider.

Domain 4: Compliance and Audit Management

“Audits and compliance” refer to all the internal and external processes that an organization implements in order to: Identify compliance requirements such as corporate policies and standards, laws and regulations as well as customer service level agreements (SLA).

Domain 5: Information Management and Data Security

Understand the significance and ways to implement IM and Data Security/privacy protection

Data security has consistently been a major issue in information technology. In the cloud computing environment, it becomes particularly serious because the data is located in different places even across the globe. Data security and privacy protection are the two main factors of user's concerns about the cloud technology

Domain 6: Interoperability and Portability

Domain 7: Traditional Security, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery

Domain 8: Data Center Operations

Understand: Logging and report generation in multi-site clouds

Domain 9: Incident Response

Domain 10: Application Security

Domain 11: Encryption and Key Management

Domain 12: Identity, Entitlement, and Access Management

Domain 13: Virtualization

Domain 14: Security as a Service

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