Getting started with CSA STAR Certification

Introduce CSA STAR Certification to your business and we will work with you to focus on cloud specific concerns that address the key requirements demanded by your customers – helping you protect your reputation and setting you apart from the competition.





What are the benefits of CSA STAR Certification?

CSA STAR Certification brings big benefits to all companies of all sizes. Confidence, reputation and new business can come with CSA STAR Certification as more customers ask for proof of these measures. Plus it can help you as a cloud service provider:

  • Provide top management with visibility, so that they can evaluate the effectiveness of their management system in relation to expectations of the cloud security industry and ISO/IEC 27001
  • Implement an audit that is designed to reflect how your organization’s objectives are aimed at optimizing the cloud services
  • Demonstrate progress and performance levels via an independently validated award from an external certified body
  • Benchmark your performance against your peers

Additionally for customers of cloud service providers, CSA STAR Certification will provide a greater understanding of the level of controls that are in place.


Training courses to get you started in CSA STAR Certification

CSA STAR Certification is suitable for organizations of all sizes and sectors. Our training is designed for all levels of experience.

Cloud Computing Security Training Course: Advanced Cloud Security Auditing for CSA STAR Certification >

In conjunction with the CSA, BSI has developed the CSA STAR Certification scheme to measure the robustness and performance of cloud security. It gives cloud service providers the ability to prove that their registration to the Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA’s) Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR) has been independently assessed against the new CSA STAR certification maturity model.

2 days

Certified STAR Auditor >

Learn how to conduct a STAR Certification audit to assess compliance with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Cloud Control Matrix (CCM). You’ll learn how to determine a maturity score and recommend a rating for STAR Certification. You can only audit to the STAR Certification scheme and recommend a rating once you have attended and passed this course.

2 days