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CSA HKM Knowledge Sharing Event – May 2021

In April, we covered the Data Security in Cloud at our Knowledge Sharing Event. In the coming Knowledge Sharing Event in May, we will come back to cloud and container security again.

Developers and DevOps teams are building and deploying code at an increasing pace. Containers and other cloud native technologies enable digital transformation. In order to secure these growing cloud native environments, enterprises need to integrate security into the software development lifecycle and protect running applications

This time we invited Palo Alto Networks cloud security architect – Felix Cheng to bring us to their Prisma Cloud solution through in-depth technical knowledge sharing. He will look into the container solution from a technical view covering how to configure, implement necessary rules and analyze incidents through collected logs.

He will share:

  1. The best practices for container security to protect running containers in production as well as secure containers across the full application life
  2. Provide unified visibility & secure Cloud Native Workload
  3. Deliver an integrated set of capabilities to respond to threats and protect cloud-native applications.
  4. Automate the remediation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations consistently across the entire build-deploy-run lifecycle.
  5. Demo 

Participants will claim 1 CPE.

DATE: 20 May, 2021 (Thursday)

TIME: 12:30 – 01:30 pm

VENUE: Webinar (in Cantonese)

SPEAKER: Felix CHENG, Cloud Security Architect of Palo Alto Networks

TOPIC: Automate your multi-cloud and container security environments with Prisma Cloud

THE SPEAKER:

Felix Cheng is the Cloud Security Architect for Hong Kong and Taiwan at Palo Alto Networks. He designed and deployed mission critical infrastructure for service providers, airports and casinos.  Over the last few years, he focused on software solutions such as application performance monitoring and analytics, cloud services and cyber security solutions.  In his spare time, he developed a simple mobile app that helped Wi-Fi engineers to perform quick site surveys.

VIEW THE PRESENTATION: https://youtu.be/iybIcVl0OHM

CSA HKM Knowledge Sharing Event – April 2021

In April the Cloud Security Alliance Hong Kong & Macau Chapter will bring you another critical topic on cloud security – Data Security in Cloud.

When we think about data security, we will definitely focus on data encryption in the cloud.  Nowadays, data encryption and protection in the cloud is no longer just focus on one platform, but to multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environment.

Recent surveys reveal that over 80% organizations are using two or more cloud service providers. These organizations have to maintain a high operational efficiency in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment, while ensuring sound security and attaining compliance effectively, all done at the same time.  

Our April seminar will demonstrate an industry-proven way of managing encryption keys in multi-clouds to secure your cloud asset.  We have invited Wood Lam from Thales Group to lead us through this topic.  At the session you will learn:

  • What are the major concerns in migrating workloads to cloud
  • How to leverage the latest security guidelines from CSA and the Hong Kong Government
  • How to achieve “Security by Design” in a multi-cloud environment

Please do not miss this opportunity to learn from the expert and get connected with your peers.

Participants will claim 1 CPE.

DATE: 15 April, 2021 (Thursday)

TIME: 12:30 – 01:30 pm

VENUE: Webinar (in Cantonese)

SPEAKER: Wood Lam, Sales Engineer at Thales

TOPIC: Accelerating security and compliance in a multi-cloud environment

THE SPEAKER:

Wood is a security consultant who advises and provides solutions to customers to facilitate their digital transformation journey like cloud migration, data protection and key management.

Drawing from his experience in serving government, FSI and large enterprise sectors, Wood will explain how to comply with local and worldwide regulations, while helping the managements and security conscious customers in meeting their business goals.

View the Presentation: https://youtu.be/Wy_b74Md3pk

The Presentation File: CSA HKM Knowledge Sharing Event – April 2021

New updates about AWS Security events this week

This week is definitely an AWS Security Knowledge Sharing week. Just notice that there are actually 3 instead of just 2 knowledge sharing events as I mentioned in an earlier post.

There is another Cloud Security Series talk with AWS on 25 Mar 2021 at 5 – 6:30pm. The topic is Well-Architected for Security. You can register in this link.

Don’t miss that.

Two AWS Security Knowledge Sharing in a week

As updated in our previous post, CSA HKM chapter is going to organize our March Knowledge Sharing with AWS team on AWS Cloud Security Tips. If you have not register yet, remember to go to register that.

Besides, just knowing that CSA APAC is also going to organize a Cloud Security Series talk with AWS on 22 Mar 2021 at 5 – 7pm. The topic is Continuous Auditing and Compliance with AWS. You can register in this link.

Really fruitful AWS security week.

March Event Updates

Knowledge Sharing Event for Mar 2021 is on its way. AWS team will talk about tips in AWS security. It should be interesting. If you wish to listen to the AWS speakers’ previous talk, you can go to the TechConnect Series – Cloud Security. More cloud security talk can be found in the link. So don’t miss our technical in-depth talk by AWS.

Another important updates are the recent documents available for Peer-Review. CCM v4.0 has been published. That is just the first updates from CCM working group. In fact, some more useful and down to earth guidelines are on their way – Such as the CCM v4.0 Implementation Guidelines, CAIQ v4.0. These Guidelines are all available for Peer Review. Peer review will be opened until 14 Apr 2021. If you are interested, remember to start your review.

Other than that, there are more open peer reviews articles available from the link, your participations would definitely help.

Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge (CCAK) Updates

Many of you may have heard that CCAK – a certificate on Cloud Auditing that jointly developed by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA are readily available now and the examination will be available on 22 March 2021.

Study guide are already available in ISACA bookstore.

Live events about CCAK were conducted in LinkedIn Live by Daniele Catteddu, CTO at Cloud Security Alliance and Paul Philips, Technical Research Manager, ISACA.

For more details about CCAK, please check here in the link. You can also get more information from CSA’s Circle, in the CCAK community after you register to the CSA’s Circle.

Later CCAK Training will be conducted in Hong Kong and Macau Chapter too. Stay Tune.

CSA HKM Knowledge Sharing Event – March 2021

Another great event is happening at the Cloud Security Alliance Hong Kong & Macau Chapter in March. Last month, we talked about securing cloud environment using SASE and Zero Trust. This month, we switched to secure the cloud environment from a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) perspective. This round, we invited Ken Zhang, Practice Manager of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to tell us the Top Ten AWS Security Tips.

In this session, you will hear fundamental recommendations for simple to implement, low or no cost AWS security solutions that offer potentially high impact. AWS services, including Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub and AWS CloudTrail enable better detection and response capabilities – making intrusion detection and incident response simpler and less costly than typical on-premises IT environments. It time allows, there would potentially be some AWS Console demo too. This will definitely be a resourceful session for you.

Please do not miss this opportunity to learn from the expert and get connected with your peers.

Participants will claim 1 CPE.

DATE: 25 March, 2021 (Thursday)

TIME: 12:30 – 01:30 pm

VENUE: Webinar (in English)

SPEAKER: Ken Zhang, Practice Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

TOPIC: Top Ten AWS Security Tips

THE SPEAKER:

Ken Zhang, Practice Manager of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ken specializes in cloud, strategy, security, transformation, architecture and change management. He has experience helping organizations with their transformation journeys in banking, insurance, retail, health service and manufacturing. He also holds a variety of widely-recognized tech certificates and an MBA from a global top 30 business school. He is passionate about helping organizations to capture value and provide better experience to their customers.

View the Presentation: https://youtu.be/WyZv99TG5Dg

Upcoming Events in February and March 2021

After Chinese New Year, many exciting activities and events are coming.

Firstly, on this coming Thursday (25 Feb 2021), we will have our knowledge sharing session by Zscaler on SASE and Zero Trust Model. Remember to register and join. More details can be found here.

Secondly, Information Security Summit – one of the most attractive, non-vendor driven, local Cybersecurity event will be held on March 9 – 10, 2021. This year, the Conference will be organised quite different from previous years due to the New Norm after Covid-19 virus. All the events will be organised online. Events and talks will be more interesting. Speakers from other countries will be conducting from other time zone to support us this year. For interactive panel discussion, some of the panelist will be discussing through the webinar from their home town on the topic – Challenge of Securing the New Norm – the Remote, Mobile, Decentralised and Virtual Business. Do register the conference and workshops. Do visit the link about the IS Summit 2021.

Periodically, CSA will have new publications. Recently CSA published the new report on Blockchains – Blockchains in the Quantum Era and report on IoT – CSA IoT Security Controls Framework v2. Stay tune with research from CSA.

Finally, Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge (CCAK) is coming. More information about the joint certification program with ISACA will be clarified soon. At this stage, 400+ pages study guide are available in ISACA store. Stay tune with CCAK site from CSA.

CSA HKM Knowledge Sharing Event – February 2021

The Chinese New Year is coming. The Cloud Security Alliance Hong Kong & Macau Chapter wishes you Happy Chinese New Year.

We will continue our Knowledge Sharing Event after the Chinese New Year and the topic will be “How to leverage cloud platform to transform traditional security infrastructure to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust model to facilitate digital transformation”, which will be presented by Jones Leung of Zscaler.

In the “New Normal” situation, more company has to move away from existing design and implementation of securing corporate network through VPN to SASE. How to deploy and implement SASE is a hot topic.

Thanks for the success of cloud in the past few years, now there are far more innovative ways to operate our IT platform to support business growth and increase business agility, and the same can apply to securing a new digital enterprise. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is one of the most popular approaches to provide different business data access experience and coverage to new threats. This session is to share common approaches to deliver SASE, their fundamental differences, pros and cons for different approaches, and also how SASE can bring you closer to adopting zero trust access model.

Please do not miss this opportunity to learn from the expert and get connected with your peers.

Participants will claim 1 CPE.

DATE: 25 February, 2021 (Thursday)

TIME: 12:30 – 01:30 pm

VENUE: Webinar (in Cantonese)

SPEAKER: Mr. Jones Leung, Systems Engineering Manager, ASEAN and Greater China, Zscaler, Inc

TOPIC: How to leverage cloud platform to transform traditional security infrastructure to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and zero trust model to facilitate digital transformation

THE SPEAKER:

Mr. Jones Leung has been with Zscaler for more than 7 years, promoting cloud transformation to enterprises and the industry. Over the past 20 years, Jones worked for many different top IT companies, such as Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and Blue Coat, and is a very well-recognized and knowledgeable technology evangelist in the region.

REGISTRATION: https://csakse2102.eventbrite.hk

Cloud Controls Matrix v4 part 1 published in Q1 2021

Cloud Control Matrix is the core component used in providing the cloud security compliance check.

CCM v3.0.1 was initially released 6 years ago. CSA determined that it is time to revise and provide the community with vendor-neutral security and privacy control framework.

More controls are added and more guidelines will be extended from the CCM v4.

CCM v4 can be downloaded from https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/cloud-controls-matrix/

CCM Implementation Guidelines will be published Q2, 2021

CCM Auditing Guidelines will be published Q3, 2021

Refer to the blog in CSA, https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2021/01/21/the-csa-cloud-controls-matrix-ccm-v4-raising-the-cloud-security-bar-to-the-next-level/