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CSA Research

Best practices, guidance, frameworks and tools to help the industry secure the cloud. Read our research to get your questions around cloud security answered.
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CSA Research is created by the industry for the industry and is both vendor-neutral and consensus driven. Our research is created by subject matter experts who volunteer for our working groups. Each working group focuses on a unique topic or aspect of cloud security, from IoT, DevSecOps, Serverless and more, we have working groups for over 20 areas of cloud computing. You can view a list of all active research working groups. To find out more about how our research is created and the process we follow you can view the CSA Research Lifecycle.

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CAVEaT Working Group Charter 2025

CAVEaT Working Group Charter 2025

Release Date: 06/26/2025

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), in collaboration with the MITRE Corporation, established the Cloud Adversarial Vectors, Exploits, and Threats (CAVEaT) Working Group to develop, curate, and maintain cloud-specific threat models. This initiative supports cloud security practitioners with...
Valid-AI-ted Overview

Valid-AI-ted Overview

Release Date: 06/20/2025

This document introduces Valid-AI-ted, CSA’s new AI-powered tool for evaluating STAR Level 1 self-assessments. Learn how the tool uses LLM technology to provide automated, actionable feedback, support continuous improvement, and award a STAR Level 1 Valid-AI-ted badge upon passing. 

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