SAN DIEGO, Oct. 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AbacusNext®, the largest Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS) provider for the legal and accounting professions, today announced that they are joining the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member, reinforcing their mission to provide the most secure, fully managed private cloud available. CSA is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment.
“Cyber security is essential to everything we do at AbacusNext,” said Jerome Fodor, CTO of AbacusNext. “Our membership in CSA will serve to further our commitment to enabling professionals with technology and meeting their data security needs by providing the most secure private cloud on the market today.”
As a CSA member, AbacusNext will benefit from CSA’s ongoing research into cloud security assurance and the opportunity for AbacusNext security experts to advance their knowledge through CSA’s certifications. AbacusNext will expand their leadership role on cyber security issues as a member of CSA’s Advisory Council, providing guidance on strategic research initiatives and allowing its own security expertise to benefit the cloud computing community.
“AbacusNext is a perfect fit for the Cloud Security Alliance,” said Jim Reavis, CEO of CSA. “As a fast growing, dynamic player in the cloud hosting space, they have everything we’re looking for in a CSA member. We’re excited to work with them toward our goal of defining and raising awareness of secure cloud computing practices.”
About the Cloud Security Alliance
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 trusted cloud ecosystem.
For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.
About AbacusNext
As the largest Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS) provider for the professional services sector, AbacusNext helps legal and accounting professionals achieve ultimate success and peace of mind through the delivery of a complete suite of compliance-ready technology solutions designed to support a secure and cloud-enabled practice at a cost they can afford. Our portfolio of turnkey solutions include hardware, software and infrastructure on a pay as you go model; Practice Management, Client Resource Management (CRM), Payment Processing, Email, Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Managed IT.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, and backed by private investment with Providence Equity, AbacusNext delivers products and services to over 500,000 businesses worldwide. To sign up or learn more visit AbacusNext.com.
About Providence Equity
Providence is a premier global asset management firm with $45 billion in assets under management across complementary private equity and credit businesses. Providence pioneered a sector-focused approach to private equity investing with the vision that a dedicated team of industry experts could build exceptional companies of enduring value. Since the firm's inception in 1989, Providence has invested in more than 150 companies and is the leading equity investment firm focused on the media, communications, education and information industries. Providence is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, and has offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Delhi. For more information, please visit www.provequity.com.