TruSight, the financial industry’s leading provider of validated third-party risk data, today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. TruSight’s extensive experience in assessing cloud service providers and helping financial services organizations meet complex regulatory and industry requirements will bring a valuable perspective to the CSA and its members.

TruSight is an industry-initiated utility that combines best practices and standardization to deliver comprehensive, validated third-party risk assessment data to financial services institutions. TruSight performs assessments according to its best-in-class standardized methodology, a robust compilation of key business, operational risk and information security controls across 27 diversified control domains. To date, TruSight has assessed many of the industry’s most widely used suppliers, including Microsoft Cloud Services, among other cloud providers.

“We are pleased to join the CSA to help advance the organization’s important mission of ensuring greater security in cloud computing,” said Jonathan Pressman, CEO of TruSight. “Like TruSight, CSA is harnessing the collective expertise of industry practitioners to raise standards—in their case, for cloud computing security—which will benefit us all.”

"TruSight's collaborative approach to risk assessment mirrors that of CSA, in which we draw on the expertise of some of the industry's top minds in educating and raising awareness of cloud security best practices," said Jim Reavis, co-founder and CEO, Cloud Security Alliance. "We are extremely pleased to count TruSight as a member, and look forward to their contributions as we work together for a secure cloud environment."