(ISC)2 - International Information System Security Certification Consortium✔✔Answer - A security
certification granting organization that has a long history of certifications that were difficult to get. This
difficulty has made their certificates seen as having higher value in the industry.
(ISC)2 Cloud Secure Data Life Cycle✔✔Answer - Based on CSA Guidance. 1. Create; 2. Store; 3. Use; 4.
Share; 5. Archive; 6. Destroy.
(SAS) 70✔✔Answer - _____ was a recognized standard of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants (AICPA) in response to the issues that also lead to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Deprecated in
2011 by the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16.
AICPA✔✔Answer - established SAS 70 and later SAAE 16.
AICPA✔✔Answer - American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
, Organizational Normative Framework (ONF)✔✔Answer - Concepts of ISO 27034. There is only one
_____ for an organization but potentially as many ANF's as applications.
ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers✔✔Answer - a
professional association seeking to advance heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration
systems design and construction.
Biba✔✔Answer - an access control model designed to preserve data integrity. It has 3 goals. Maintain
internal and external consistency; prevent unauthorized data modification even by authorized parties;
prevent data modification by unauthorized individuals.
Capability Maturity Model (CMM)✔✔Answer - a development model where the maturity relates to the
formality and optimization of processes. When applied to cloud security it would focus on those aspects
as they relate to cloud security.
Child Online Protection Act (COPA)✔✔Answer - An attempt to restrict access by minors to material
defined as harmful to minors. A permanent injunction against the law in 2009.
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs)✔✔Answer - monitors network activity between users and cloud
applications and enforces security policy and blocking malware.
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)✔✔Answer - publishes the Notorious Nine: 1) Data breaches; 2) Data Loss;
3) Account service traffic hijacking; 4) Insecure Interfaces and APIs; 5) Denial of Service; 6) Malicious
Insiders; 7) Abuse of Cloud Services; 8) Insufficient Due Diligence; 9) Shared technology Vulnerabilities.
There are also implications and controls associated with each.
CSA STAR - Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust, and Assurance Registry (STAR)✔✔Answer -
_______ uses the Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ), Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM),
and GDPR Self-Assessment as inputs to certify an organization to Level 1.
Level 2 integrates the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix and the AICPA Trust Service Principles - AT 101 for
STAR attestation.
certification granting organization that has a long history of certifications that were difficult to get. This
difficulty has made their certificates seen as having higher value in the industry.
(ISC)2 Cloud Secure Data Life Cycle✔✔Answer - Based on CSA Guidance. 1. Create; 2. Store; 3. Use; 4.
Share; 5. Archive; 6. Destroy.
(SAS) 70✔✔Answer - _____ was a recognized standard of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants (AICPA) in response to the issues that also lead to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Deprecated in
2011 by the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16.
AICPA✔✔Answer - established SAS 70 and later SAAE 16.
AICPA✔✔Answer - American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
, Organizational Normative Framework (ONF)✔✔Answer - Concepts of ISO 27034. There is only one
_____ for an organization but potentially as many ANF's as applications.
ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers✔✔Answer - a
professional association seeking to advance heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration
systems design and construction.
Biba✔✔Answer - an access control model designed to preserve data integrity. It has 3 goals. Maintain
internal and external consistency; prevent unauthorized data modification even by authorized parties;
prevent data modification by unauthorized individuals.
Capability Maturity Model (CMM)✔✔Answer - a development model where the maturity relates to the
formality and optimization of processes. When applied to cloud security it would focus on those aspects
as they relate to cloud security.
Child Online Protection Act (COPA)✔✔Answer - An attempt to restrict access by minors to material
defined as harmful to minors. A permanent injunction against the law in 2009.
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs)✔✔Answer - monitors network activity between users and cloud
applications and enforces security policy and blocking malware.
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)✔✔Answer - publishes the Notorious Nine: 1) Data breaches; 2) Data Loss;
3) Account service traffic hijacking; 4) Insecure Interfaces and APIs; 5) Denial of Service; 6) Malicious
Insiders; 7) Abuse of Cloud Services; 8) Insufficient Due Diligence; 9) Shared technology Vulnerabilities.
There are also implications and controls associated with each.
CSA STAR - Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust, and Assurance Registry (STAR)✔✔Answer -
_______ uses the Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ), Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM),
and GDPR Self-Assessment as inputs to certify an organization to Level 1.
Level 2 integrates the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix and the AICPA Trust Service Principles - AT 101 for
STAR attestation.
