Mr Raj Samani was last week appointed as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) EMEA Strategy Advisor.
The role is a non-compensated role that is intended to advise the CSA on best practices and a roadmap within EMEA, as well as support existing and developing CSA Chapters where appropriate within EMEA. The CSA is a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.
Jim Reavis, Co-founder & Executive Director of the Cloud Security Alliance, said, “The CSA is strongly committed to furthering our work in this region, building on the wonderful work already being done. We look forward to Raj’s contributions to help support our mission throughout EMEA.
On appointment of the role, Samani commented, “I am really excited about working closer with the CSA. The Cloud represents a fundamental shift in the way organisations will do business in the 21st century, and the work that the CSA (and CAMM) are doing is fundamental toward widescale secure adoption of cloud computing.”
Raj Samani is the EMEA CTO of McAfee, the world’s largest dedicated computer security company in the world, and is the Founder of the Common Assurance Maturity Model (CAMM – www.common-assurance.com). He joins having previously been the Vice President for Communications with the ISSA UK chapter in which he presided over the award for Chapter Communications Programme of the Year (2008, 2009).
