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The State of Multi-Cloud Identity Survey

The State of Multi-Cloud Identity Survey
Release Date: 10/29/2024

Enterprises encounter significant obstacles when adopting multi-cloud. Namely, harmonizing hybrid and cloud identity systems for secure integration. Ident...

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Zero Trust Guidance for Critical Infrastructure

Zero Trust Guidance for Critical Infrastructure
Release Date: 10/28/2024

In most nations, the health of public services relies on secure and resilient Critical Infrastructure. We call these infrastructures "critical" because th...

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Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing v5 - Japanese Translation

Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing v5 - Japanese Translation
Release Date: 10/22/2024

This localized version of this publication was produced from the original source material through the efforts of chapters and volunteers but the translate...

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AI Organizational Responsibilities - Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and Cultural Aspects

AI Organizational Responsibilities - Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and Cultural Aspects
Release Date: 10/21/2024

Continuing CSA's efforts to address the evolving AI landscape, this latest publication covers AI governance, risk management, and culture. Understand vari...

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NIST CSF v2 Cloud Community Profile - Based on CCM v4

NIST CSF v2 Cloud Community Profile - Based on CCM v4
Release Date: 10/15/2024

The CSFv2.0 Cloud Community Profile aligns the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) version 4.0 with the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) version 2.0 by mapping equiv...

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Informative Reference Details for the Mapping of CCM v4 to NIST CSF v2

Informative Reference Details for the Mapping of CCM v4 to NIST CSF v2
Release Date: 10/08/2024

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications, and best practices for securing cloud...

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AI in Medical Research: Applications & Considerations

AI in Medical Research: Applications & Considerations
Release Date: 09/25/2024

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought about a paradigm shift in numerous fields. AI technologies can process vast amounts of data, recogn...

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AI Organizational Responsibilities - Core Security Responsibilities - Korean Translation

AI Organizational Responsibilities - Core Security Responsibilities - Korean Translation
Release Date: 09/24/2024

This localized version of this publication was produced from the original source material through the efforts of chapters and volunteers but the translate...

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AI Resilience: A Revolutionary Benchmarking Model for AI Safety - Japanese Translation

AI Resilience: A Revolutionary Benchmarking Model for AI Safety - Japanese Translation
Release Date: 09/23/2024

This localized version of this publication was produced from the original source material through the efforts of chapters and volunteers but the translate...

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Don’t Panic! Getting Real about AI Governance

Don’t Panic! Getting Real about AI Governance
Release Date: 09/18/2024

The excitement around Generative AI and its potential business value continues to grow. A major factor is AI systems' emerging capability to mimic human-l...

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The State of Non-Human Identity Security

The State of Non-Human Identity Security
Release Date: 09/11/2024

Non-human identities (NHIs) include bots, API keys, service accounts, OAuth tokens, and secrets. These identities keep today’s organizations running smoot...

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Confidential Computing Working Group Charter 2024

Confidential Computing Working Group Charter 2024
Release Date: 09/10/2024

The working group is tasked with exploring and implementing Confidential Computing technologies to enhance data security across various industries. This g...

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Zero Trust Guiding Principles v1.1

Zero Trust Guiding Principles v1.1
Release Date: 09/03/2024

Zero Trust is a strategic mindset that is highly useful for organizations to adopt as part of their digital transformations. Based on the idea of "never t...

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Data Privacy Engineering Working Group Charter 2024

Data Privacy Engineering Working Group Charter 2024
Release Date: 08/29/2024

The Data Privacy Engineering Working Group (DPE WG) is chartered with the mission to integrate privacy-centric methodologies into development workflows, a...

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Fully Homomorphic Encryption Working Group Charter 2024

Fully Homomorphic Encryption Working Group Charter 2024
Release Date: 08/29/2024

Through the use and deployment of cryptographic libraries, specialist software toolchains, and dedicated hardware and infrastructure, Fully Homomorphic En...

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Securing LLM Backed Systems: Essential Authorization Practices

Securing LLM Backed Systems: Essential Authorization Practices
Release Date: 08/13/2024

Organizations are increasingly leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to tackle diverse business problems. Both existing companies and a crop of new star...

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Strengthening Research Integrity with High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security

Strengthening Research Integrity with High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security
Release Date: 08/07/2024

High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems aggregate computing resources to gain performance greater than that of a single workstation. HPC systems have bec...

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Using AI for Offensive Security

Using AI for Offensive Security
Release Date: 08/06/2024

Offensive security involves proactively simulating an attacker’s behavior by using tactics and techniques similar to those of an adversary to identify sys...

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Top Threats to Cloud Computing 2024

Top Threats to Cloud Computing 2024
Release Date: 08/05/2024

The CSA Top Threats Report aims to raise awareness of current cloud security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities. In this 2024 installment, we surveyed ov...

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Quantum-Safe Security Governance with the Cloud Controls Matrix

Quantum-Safe Security Governance with the Cloud Controls Matrix
Release Date: 07/30/2024

For the last decade or so there have been major developments in the quantum and post-quantum cryptography spaces. The time has come for enterprise IT depa...

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