Alibaba Cloud Becomes the First Cloud Computing Company to Obtain C5 Attestation with Additional Requirements
December 14 2017 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Only Asian company to obtain attestation
from key assurance framework for cloud operations
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of the Alibaba Group,
announced today that it had completed its assessment for the Cloud
Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue (C5) set out by the Federal
Office for Information Security in Germany, also known as Bundesamt
für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI). Alibaba Cloud is
the world’s first cloud provider to achieve this attestation with
the additional requirements. The attestation covers Elastic Compute
Service (“ECS”), Relational Database Service (“RDS”), Object
Storage Service (“OSS”), Content Delivery Network (“CDN”), Server
Load Balancer (“SLB”), Virtual Private Cloud (“VPC”) and Alibaba
Cloud Security available on Alibaba Cloud’s regions in Singapore
and Germany.
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Alibaba Cloud’s commitment to applying the highest levels of
compliance in controls and security is shown by meeting the C5
standard that serves not only as a benchmark for the German market,
but also increasingly as a benchmark for institutions across
Europe. With the attestation, customers in German states can
leverage the work performed under this BSI audit to comply with
stringent local requirements and operate secure workloads using
Alibaba Cloud services.
C5 is intended primarily for professional cloud service
providers, their auditors and customers of the cloud service
providers. It has 17 distinct control requirements that the cloud
providers either have to comply with or meet defined minimum
standards. It is a required assessment for working with the public
sector in Germany and is being increasingly adopted by the private
sector. The philosophy behind C5 is to unify the currently
fragmented certification of cloud provisions that are measured
against no agreed standards and possess no coherent oversight.
Arne Sch�nbohm, president of Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der
Informationstechnik (BSI), commented: “Information security is a
critical success factor for the digitization. The C5 standard is a
well-established and valuable decision guidance in the cloud market
for all companies that want to use cloud services in the course of
their digitization.”
Only five cloud service providers have obtained the C5 under
regular requirements to date, and the enhanced requirements that
Alibaba Cloud has satisfied means that clients can be reassured
that the company’s services reach the highest international
standards in a wide range of areas, from security to business
continuity and from interoperability to data protection.
Simon Hu, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group and President
of Alibaba Cloud, commented, “Alibaba Cloud is fully committed to
the highest standards in all aspects of our operations no matter
where that might be in the world. We are proud to be the first
company to meet the C5 additional requirements – something that
should increase the trust placed in us by our growing client base
not only in Germany, but also across the whole of Europe.”
In addition to obtaining the C5, Alibaba Cloud is also a member
of the Trusted Cloud organization, a program run by the German
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). This is a
further seal of quality that signifies trusted cloud services and
underlines the commitment of Alibaba Cloud to growing its presence
in the region and ensuring that it always operates at market
leading standards.
About Alibaba Cloud
Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com), the
cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, is among the world’s top
three IaaS providers according to Gartner, and the largest provider
of public cloud services in China, according to IDC. Alibaba Cloud
provides a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to
businesses worldwide, including merchants doing business on Alibaba
Group marketplaces, start-ups, corporations and government
organisations. Alibaba Cloud is the official Cloud Services Partner
of the International Olympic Committee.
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