If you missed out on our first awareness workshop in Brussels and missed out on a ticket for the Barcelona workshop, take a look at our the agenda for our next workshop which will take place in Amsterdam on 13 May 2019.

About the event

Third party audits and certifications are considered a suitable solution to providing assurance and trust regarding a cloud service provider’s approach to security and privacy. They are also a credible way to show compliance to standards and regulations. Unfortunately, though, the number of existing national, international and sectorial standards, laws and regulations has drastically increased in the last few years, leading to increased complexity of the area of compliance. Such a proliferation of requirements has had the direct consequence of an increased cost of compliance for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), which in some cases is reflected in an increased service price for the cloud customer.

Within the context of the European Commission funded project EU-SEC, we have analysed the issue of this proliferation of cloud security standards and compliance schemes, and we have observed that many security requirements and control objectives in different standards are largely overlapping. As a consequence, the process of adhering to different standards, laws and regulations for CSPs is not efficient, with a lot of duplicated work that unduly increases costs and complexity.

The EU-SEC project has worked on addressing these issues by, for instance, identifying the common denominators between widely known standards (e.g., ISO27001/02/17/18, SOC2, CSA STAR Certification and Attestation, BSI C5, ANSSI SecNumCloud and other national or sectorial schemes) and presenting them under a well-defined and comprehensive framework, namely the EU-SEC’s “Multi-Party Recognition Framework”.

Thanks to this workshop, attendees will acquire a theoretical understanding and practical implementation tips on:

  1. The purpose and objectives of the multiparty recognition framework (MPRF).
  2. MPRF’s life-cycle and its processes
  3. The business drivers for and benefits of the adoption of the MPRF
  4. How to use the MPRF in real life (with dedicated tips for the different target audiences, i.e. CSPs, Customers, Auditors & Consultant and scheme owners & regulators)

Full details are available on our dedicated website page or on the registration page of Eventbrite.