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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.
Research

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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Latest Research

AI Controls Framework Working Group Charter 2024

AI Controls Framework Working Group Charter 2024

Release Date: 03/21/2024

The AI Controls Framework working group is focused on staying abreast of the latest technological advancements in AI while simultaneously identifying, understanding, and forecasting associated risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.
Standardizing Security in Diverse Sectors: A Template for STAR-Aligned Sector-Specific Standards

Standardizing Security in Diverse Sectors: A Template for STAR-Aligned Sector-Specific Standards

Release Date: 03/06/2024

The CSA Security, Trust, Assurance, and Risk (STAR) program encompasses the key principles of transparency, rigorous auditing, and harmonization of cybersecurity standards outlined in the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). This document provides a template for developing sector-specific requirements...
Defining the Zero Trust Protect Surface

Defining the Zero Trust Protect Surface

Release Date: 03/05/2024

Enterprise adoption and implementation of Zero Trust is broad and growing. Venture Beat reports that 90% of organizations moving to the cloud are adopting a Zero Trust strategy, while Gartner predicts that 10% of large enterprises will have a mature and measurable Zero Trust security program in...