Rational Survivability

Version 2.1 of the Cloud Security Alliance “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing” is available for download here.

It’s important to note that in this version of the guidance there are some notable changes in structure and content focus:

The guidance provided herein is the second version of the Cloud Security Alliance document, “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing”, which was originally released in April 2009.  The permanent archive locations for these documents are:

http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance/csaguide.v2.1.pdf  (this document)
http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance/csaguide.v1.0.pdf  (version 1 guidance)

In a departure from the first version of our guidance, a decision was made to separate the key guidance from the core domain research.  Each domain’s core research is being released as its own white paper.  These white papers and their release schedule are located at:

http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance/domains/

In another change from the first version, Domain 3: Legal and Domain 4: Electronic Discovery were combined into a single domain.  Additionally, Domain 6: Information Lifecycle Management and Domain 14: Storage were combined into a single domain, renamed Data Lifecycle Management.  This has caused a renumbering of our (now 13) domains.

We have hundreds of pages of edited/compiled content for each of these domains and the working groups will be releasing their schedules for the domain work products shortly.

Thanks to everyone who contributed!  We look forward to delivering even more value in the follow-on releases.

/Hoff,
Technical Advisor CSA