Layer 7 Technologies Joins The Cloud Security Alliance

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Layer 7 Technologies, the leader in Gateways for service-oriented integration, cloud connectivity and Web-to-mobile information sharing, is pleased to announce its membership in the Cloud Security Alliance. The company is also sponsoring two upcoming CSA events, including the Cloud Security Alliance Summit at RSA and a webinar on managing API security in the cloud.

As cloud adoption continues to escalate across the enterprise, network architects, developers and security professionals are seeking best practices in cloud computing to shorten the learning curve, streamline operations and minimize the risk associated with sharing data across internal and external security boundaries. As a new CSA member, Layer 7 is taking a leadership role on several fronts to help define standards and best practices in cloud computing security.

“As a global leader in building secure cloud connectivity gateways and brokers, Layer 7 brings considerable expertise in cloud security,” said Jim Reavis, executive director, Cloud Security Alliance. “The Cloud Security Alliance is excited to welcome Layer 7 as a corporate member.”

Layer 7’s CloudSpan family of gateway products helps enterprises and service providers address critical security issues in delivering services from the cloud and integrating to the cloud.

In addition to becoming a corporate member, Layer 7 will partner with the CSA on two upcoming initiatives.

* Cloud Security Alliance Summit, February 14, 2011, San Francisco Layer 7 is a sponsor of the 2011 Cloud Security Alliance Summit that will be held alongside RSA in San Francisco. This year’s Summit serves as the venue for the global introduction of several research projects, including research on governance, cloud security reference architectures and cloud-specific computer security incident response teams. * Managing API Security and SaaS in the Cloud Webinar, February 23, 2011 Featuring eBay Head of Security Liam Lynch, Layer 7 and the CSA will co-present this webinar. Mr. Lynch and Layer 7 CTO Scott Morrison will discuss how enterprises can secure APIs to different consumers in a simple, scalable way, and address versioning and meter consumption without burdening either application developers or application consumers.

About the Cloud Security Alliance

The Cloud Security Alliance 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. The Cloud Security Alliance is comprised of many subject matter experts from a wide variety disciplines, united in the promotion of a common level of understanding between the consumers and providers of cloud computing regarding the necessary security requirements and attestation of assurance.

About Layer 7 Technologies

Layer 7 Technologies helps organizations secure and govern integrations that span the Internet and cloud. Through its award-winning line of SecureSpan SOA Gateways and CloudSpan Cloud Brokers, Layer 7 gives enterprises the ability to control identity, data security, SLA and visibility requirements for sharing application data and functionality across organizational boundaries. With more than 100 customers spanning six continents, Layer 7 supports the most demanding commercial and government organizations. Layer 7 solutions are FIPS compliant, STIG vulnerability tested and have met Common Criteria EAL4+ security assurance. For more information, please visit www.layer7tech.com, email us at [email protected] or follow us on Twitter at @layer7.