In this special blog, Daniele Catteddu, CTO of Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announce the formal launch of its new initiative: the Compliance Automation Revolution (CAR).

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, it is of strategic importance that technology providers are not only secure but can, at any time, demonstrate in a consistent manner ongoing protection of data whenever required. In other terms this means that compliance and assurance are paramount. Organisations operate in an environment shaped by ever-growing regulatory requirements, complex supply chains, and rising expectations around security, privacy, and appropriate third-party risk management. These factors have culminated in traditional approaches to compliance being inefficient, insufficient and unsustainable in the future.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) says it has always been committed to helping its community navigate these challenges, and announced the launch of the new CAR initiative in response.

Backed by its community of industry experts and with the initial blessing from some policymakers and regulators, CAR aims to fundamentally transform how organisations approach compliance, security governance, assurance, and, ultimately, trust. The initiative will focus on four key action areas:

• Automating Evidence Collection and Sharing: Developing methods and tools to automatically gather compliance evidence and share them in a standardized machine-readable format.
• Shifting Compliance Left: Embedding compliance checks early in development as part of system design and CI/CD pipelines.
• Harmonizing Regulatory Frameworks: Mapping and aligning frameworks into a common, reusable set of controls.
• Driving Risk Quantification: Developing metrics and models to quantify security and compliance risk in objective terms, including defining standardized metrics for control effectiveness and assurance levels.

From CSA’s perspective, we can’t overstate the importance and timeliness of this initiative. It addresses the reality that compliance and assurance have become integral aspects of business strategy, a driving force for competitive advantage, and a factor of differentiation based on security excellence. At the same time, compliance and assurance must keep pace with the speed of innovation.

It’s time for a true paradigm shift in how CSA achieves compliance, trust, and assurance in the cloud and AI. To find out how, read the full blog, here

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