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April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17
Symantec CA woes debated by browser community

Compliance with CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements was debated after Symantec CA posted responses to 14 issues raised by Mozilla developers.
February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16
Privacy Shield to replace Safe Harbor framework

The EU and U.S. agree on Privacy Shield as the replacement for the Safe Harbor framework for transatlantic data flows, though questions remain over privacy protection details.
January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16
Industry group says FedRAMP certification process is 'broken'

An advocacy group representing cloud providers such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM has criticized FedRAMP and called on the government to fix the cloud certification program.
April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15
CSA, (ISC)2 introduce new cloud security certification

The Cloud Security Alliance and the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium introduced a new, jointly developed cloud security certification.

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Shared responsibility model transparency boosts cloud security

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