The CISO of GMV Secure e-Solutions has won Cloud Security Aliance (CSA)’s Ron Knode Service Award on the strength of his key work in the development and implementation of Secure Cloud controls and models. The Spanish CSA chapter has brokered the translation into Spanish of the CSA Guide, Cloud Control Matrix and the 2013, 2014 and 2015 reports of the State-of-the-Art of Cloud Computing in Spain, among other work carried out by the chapter.

Mariano J. Benito has worked for GMV throughout his whole career. He boasts the certifications CISA, CISM, CGEIT by ISACA, CISSP by (ISC)2, ISO 27001-LA by AENOR and BS 25999-LA by BSI. In 2004 he became Security Manager of GMVSecure e-Solutions, directing ISO 27001 certification of the company’s ISMS (from 2004 onwards). In March 2010 he also set up and certified the company’s business continuity management system under ISO 22301. He is also author of the first Spanish analysis of cloud security, which came out in 2009. He has been coordinator of the Spanish CSA Chapter since 2012.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject-matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products. CSA’s activities, knowledge and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and the assurance industry — and provide a forum through which diverse parties can work together to create and maintain a trustworthy cloud ecosystem.