Cloud Security Alliance Issues Expanded Specification for the Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) | Business Wire

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world's leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today released Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) Specification v2.0, an update to the original Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) v1 (2014). The enhanced specification encompasses the architectural components, interactions, and basic security communications protocol for the Software-Defined Perimeter. It's hoped that the publication of version 2 will encourage more enterprises to adopt a Zero Trust paradigm for securing their applications, networks, users, and data.

"While the original specification was sound and provided a solid architectural and conceptual foundation for securing connectivity, it was largely silent on several areas, including SDP access authorization policies, onboarding, and securing non-person entities. Given that ...