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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

The "AI Vulnerability Storm"

The "AI Vulnerability Storm"

Release Date: 05/01/2026

AI is fundamentally changing the speed, scale, and economics of vulnerability discovery—and most security programs aren’t built to keep up. This publication breaks down how AI-driven exploit development is compressing timelines from weeks to hours, creating a structural advantage for attackers...
Using Zero Trust to Counter Identity Spoofing & Abuse

Using Zero Trust to Counter Identity Spoofing & Abuse

Release Date: 04/22/2026

Traditional network perimeters are becoming increasingly irrelevant in today’s hybrid environments. Instead, this publication emphasizes the growing importance of identity integrity as the foundation of access control decisions. It explores the evolution of modern identity-based attacks and how...
Autonomous but Not Controlled

Autonomous but Not Controlled

Release Date: 04/20/2026

AI agents are rapidly becoming embedded across enterprise environments. They span cloud platforms, SaaS applications, internal systems, and LLM-driven workflows. As these systems take on more autonomous roles, organizations are shifting from experimentation to governance. They're redefining how...