# CSA Trusted Cloud Initiative (TCI) Reference Architecture

# Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms

Short Form Full Form
CSA Cloud Security Alliance
TCI Trusted Cloud Initiative

# Overview

The TCI Reference Architecture is both a methodology and a set of tools that enable security architects, enterprise architects, and risk management professionals to leverage a common set of solutions that fulfill their common needs to be able to assess where their internal IT and their cloud providers are in terms of security capabilities and to plan a roadmap to meet the security needs of their business.

# Sources