The non-profit Cloud Security Alliance aims to promote best practices around security. The CSA’s GRC stack is a suite of tools to help people assess and instrument clouds according to industry best practices, standards, and critical compliance requirements. The group has 20,000 members and is regularly cited as a leading voice in the move to bring security to cloud computing. The organization is free to download the stack, as is membership in the group (although there is a fee for corporate sponsors) CSA board member: “We don’t want to become beholden to any company’s agenda””]

