Enterprises looking to hold or transact with crypto currencies such as bitcoin, need to implement appropriate levels of governance. Bitcoin is a money-just as your finance departments have control and compliance standards over the handling of corporate cash they also need to implement standards appropriate for handling Bitcoin.
CCSS, crypto currency security standard, is an excellent start for organizations jumping on the bitcoin bandwagon.
CCSS offers three levels of security. We highly recommend that organizations begin ticking off the Level I set of standards.
The standards are divided into several categories including: key creation, wallet creation, key storage, key usage, audit, and several others.
Here’s a link to the website and the full set of CCSS standards.
