The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X9, Data and Information Security Subcommittee X9F has assigned a new project to Cryptographic Protocol and Application Security standards working group X9F4. It is now open and calling for participation in the new work item (NWI) X9.125 Cloud Services Compliance Data (CSCD). It intends to “describe a common set of data needed for automating internal control and compliance testing of cloud service infrastructures” to support standard control frameworks. Contributors are sought “from the financial community with expertise in compliance, audit, and information security”.