IT Professionals Offered New Cloud Security Qualification

CIO: Infosecurity education body (ISC)2 is collaborating with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to launch a new certification the pair hope will offer cloud security professionals an important benchmark for competence in the field.

According to (ISC)2, the tie-up will see the qualification created using subject matter and the expertise of both organisation's membership with a view to laying down what professionals should know to work in cloud security.

The initiative stems from a concern that such skills are currently poorly defined in an area that has emerged in a matter of only a few years, leaving risk and security management to develop on an almost ad-hoc basis.

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