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EuroCloud Star Audit
Based on European Quality Values for a Worldwide Usage
International Partner Program
by EuroCloud Europe
EuroCloud Europe
Coordinators, EC Countries, In Foundation
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EC Countries - A
EC Countries - B
• Austria
• France
• Germany
• Hungary
• Italia
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United
Kingdom
• Belgium
• Denmark
• Greece
• Ireland
• Malta
• Monaco
• Russia
• Serbia
In Foundation
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• Lithuania
• Turkey
• Ukraine
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ECSA introduction
Important aspects on the way from Outsourcing to Cloud Sourcing 4
The same cloud service
can provide:
• different use case
• different requirements
for the SLA
Traditionel: complex B2B
Contracts with QoS, KPI,
Compensation, Monitoring
and Auditing
Cloud: standard contracts
for standard services
Complexity of law:
• Licenses
• Identity management
• Optaining SLA's
Traditional: Individual,
specific long-term
calculated over several
years
Cloud: Standard,
industrialized, shared
services, large volumes,
large investments, short
contracts
Traditional: A fully responsible provider
with known subcontractors
Cloud: Provider chain, cross-border,
network bandwidth as an additional risk
ECSA Ecosystem
What needs to be addressed
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Cloud Specific Assessment
Security Assessment
Legal Compliance Assessment
Data Privacy Assessment
Common Scope - no negotiations
Complete Cloud Supply Chain covered
publicly available Controls
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EuroCloud Europe
Vision
ECSA Vision
I.
Deliver a framework, assessments and a certificate that
are meaningful selection tools for customers who want to
use trustworthy cloud services.
II. To reduce the necessity to perform costly individual
audits.
III. To provide a valuable instrument with a high level of
transparency and guidance for customers and providers
alike.
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ECSA Ecosystem
What is the EuroCloud Staraudit (ECSA)
The EuroCloud Star Audit
(ECSA) is a mature
certification scheme,
especially designed to
asses cloud service.
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ECSA Ecosystem
What is the EuroCloud Staraudit (ECSA)
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Established in spring 2011
EuroCloud evaluates a cloud
service against the
requirements of the ECSA
audit scheme and covers all
participants of the specific
supply chain of a cloud
service.
ECSA Ecosystem
What is the EuroCloud Staraudit (ECSA)
The ECSA audit has a nonnegotiable mandatory
bandwidth of all important
areas of a cloud service:
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ECSA Ecosystem
What is the EuroCloud Staraudit (ECSA)
ECSA has a modular structure
and offers three maturity level
(indicted by awarded stars) it is
not only suitable for large
enterprises but can also be
achieved by a SME-type of
cloud provider.
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ECSA Ecosystem
What is the EuroCloud Staraudit (ECSA)
If a cloud services matches the
ECSA audit criteria the ECSA
certificate is granted.
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ECSA Ecosystem
What is the EuroCloud Staraudit (ECSA)
The ECSA certificate is a
meaningful selection tool for
customers who want to use
trustworthy cloud services and
it reduces the necessity to
perform costly individual audits.
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ECSA Ecosystem
What is the EuroCloud Staraudit (ECSA)
With the ECSA EuroCloud
Europe delivers a valuable
instrument with a high level of
transparency and guidance for
customers and providers alike.
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EuroCloud Star Audit
www.eurocloud-staraudit.eu
Assessment tool
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