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COMPANY NEWS:  CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), The identity security company, today announced that it has earned the Trusted Cloud Provider trustmark from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organisation dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. The Trusted Cloud Provider trustmark helps organisations to identify providers that have invested to achieve the highest standards of cloud security in their product offerings.

COMPANY NEWS: Illumio has announced John Kindervag is joining the company as chief evangelist. With over 25 years of experience as a practitioner and industry analyst, Kindervag is one of the world's foremost cybersecurity experts and is known for creating the transformational zero trust model of cybersecurity. At Illumio, Kindervag is responsible for driving the adoption of zero trust segmentation through high-touch advocacy and forward-thinking thought leadership.

Corporate IT and process training provider DDLS is now offering the Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certification training from (ISC)² which it says gives IT and information security leaders the opportunity to prove their understanding of cybersecurity and securing critical assets in the cloud.

Microsoft's new Cloud Security Readiness Tool provides organisations with a report showing how moving to the cloud could help the organisation's security.

Cloud is increasingly seen as a business enabler, but concerns persist.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and Fujitsu Laboratories of America have formed the Big Data Working Group to "address the need for collaborative research and solutions to today's big data security challenges."

The Cloud Security Alliance has branched out into Asia Pacific with Trend Micro as founding sponsor and has appointed Aloysius Cheang, Trend Micro's Asia Pacific strategy advisor, as managing director Asia Pacific.

Huawei has joined the Cloud Security Alliance, a not-for-profit organisation set up to promote best practice in the provision of security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

As part of our discussion with Entrust CTO, Jon Callas, iTWire was interested to know where the point of intersection between Clouds and Security lay.