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 trustworthy cloud computing environment.

Within this remit Spain played a key role in 2016, hosting the yearly European and Spanish congresses. GMV collaborated in the organization of both events.

The CSA-EMEA Congress was held with the collaboration of international speakers who dealt with the latest cloud security trends, GDPR and online regulatory frameworks, among other matters.

Another congress speaker was Mariano J. Benito, CISO of GMV Secure e-Solutions and Coordinator of the Operative Technical Committee of the Spanish chapter of CSA, who presented the results of the fourth State-of-the-Art Cloud Security Study, carried out in 2016 with the participation of Spain, Peru and Argentina. According to Mariano J. Benito this study has shown that “after several years offering their market services, cloud service providers are still in general failing to meet their clients’ security expectations. The bigger the client, moreover, and the more resources they have, the bigger is this sense of dissatisfaction. Incidents in their cloud services are cropping up more frequently and with a bigger impact than those they find in their local services”.

The Spanish CSA chapter also held its annual meeting, organized by ISMS Forum. This meeting, boasting a roll call of speakers of the stature of INCIBE, HPE and AGBAR, analyzed the conclusions of the 4th State-of-the-Art Study in a GMV-moderated panel discussion with the participation of Akamai, Panda and HOE.