Working Group
Open Certification Framework
The CSA Open Certification working group is an industry initiative to allow global, accredited, trusted certification of cloud providers.
Open Certification Framework Working Group Charter
Working Group Leadership
Daniele Catteddu
Chief Technology Officer, CSA
Daniele Catteddu is an information security and risk management practitioner, technologies expert and privacy evangelist with over 15 of experience. He worked in several senior roles both in the private and public sector. He is member of various national and international security expert groups and committees on cyber-security and privacy, keynote speaker at several conferences and author of numerous studies and papers on risk management, ...
Working Group Co-Chairs
Ryan Mackie
Principal, Schellman & Company
Ryan Mackie is a Principal at Schellman & Company, LLC. Ryan manages SOC, PCI-DSS, ISO, HIPAA, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR Certification and Attestation service delivery and also oversees the firm-wide methodology and execution for the ISO certification services, including ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 20000, and ISO 22301 as well as CSA STAR certification services. He has over 20 years of experience, including 14 at Schellman, 2 at P...
Ronald Tse
CEO, Ribose
Ronald has served CSA in numerous capacities, including as a member of CSA's APAC Research Advisory and International Standardization Council. Additionally, he co-chairs the Open Certification Framework (OCF), SaaS Governance, and DevSecOps working groups. He is the founder and CEO of Ribose, where under his leadership the company has been consistently awarded the industry's highest cloud security ratings, including being the on...
| Publications in Review | Open Until |
|---|---|
| Healthcare Confidential Computing and the Trusted Execution Environment | Jun 09, 2025 |
| Navigating the Human Factor: Understanding and Addressing Resistance to AI Adoption | Jun 09, 2025 |
| AICM mapping to NIST 600-1 | Jun 16, 2025 |
| Analyzing Log Data with AI Models | Jun 20, 2025 |
Who can join?
Anyone can join a working group, whether you have years of experience or want to just participate as a fly on the wall.
What is the time commitment?
The time commitment for this group varies depending on the project. You can spend a 15 minutes helping review a publication that's nearly finished or help author a publication from start to finish.
Virtual Meetings
Attend our next meeting. You can just listen in to decide if this group is a good for you or you can choose to actively participate. During these calls we discuss current projects, and well as share ideas for new projects. This is a good way to meet the other members of the group. You can view all research meetings here.
No scheduled meetings for this working group in the next 60 days.
Open Peer Reviews
Peer reviews allow security professionals from around the world to provide feedback on CSA research before it is published.