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Cloud Security Complexity

Release Date: 05/21/2019

CSA’s latest survey examines information security concerns in complex cloud environment. The survey of 700 IT and security professionals aims to analyze and ...

Custom Applications and IaaS Trends 2017

Release Date: 04/07/2017

Cloud Adoption and Security in India

Release Date: 11/22/2016

The “State on Cloud Adoption and Security in 2016: India” survey was circulated in an effort to understand and evaluate cloud computing trends in India. W...

Cloud Adoption Practices & Priorities in the Chinese Financial Sector

Release Date: 10/28/2016

We circulated the “Financial Services Industry Cloud Adoption Survey: China” survey to IT and security professionals in the Financial Services Institution...

Defeating Insider Threats

Release Date: 10/19/2016

As a follow up to the Top Threats in Cloud Computing and from the months of May to July 2016 we surveyed approximately 100 professionals on the extent of ...

Mitigating Risk

Release Date: 08/17/2016

With several years of cloud adoption in organizations, approaches to security have been evolving rapidly. To dig deeper into these concerns and the contro...

Identity Security

Release Date: 04/19/2016

The goal of the Identity Solutions: Security Beyond the Perimeter survey was to address Insufficient Identity, Credential, and Access Management and gain ...

The Cloud Balancing Act for IT: Between Promise and Peril

Release Date: 01/13/2016

Cloud Adoption does not have to mean opening up your organization to increased security risks and threats if the right policies are in place. That’s what ...

SME Cloud Security

Release Date: 06/01/2015

This 2015 Hong Kong Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) Cloud Adoption, Security and Privacy Readiness Survey was conducted by the Internet Society H...

Cloud Adoption In The Financial Services Sector

Release Date: 03/05/2015

We circulated the “How Cloud is Being Used in the Financial Sector” survey to IT and security professionals in financial services institutions. The goal w...

Cloud Adoption Practices & Priorities

Release Date: 01/09/2015

The benefits for enterprises moving to the cloud are clear: greater business agility, data availability, collaboration, and cost savings. The cloud is als...

Cloud Usage: Risks and Opportunities

Release Date: 09/15/2014

This survey was circulated to over 165 IT and security professionals in the U.S. and around the globe representing a variety of industry verticals and ent...

Data Protection Heat Index

Release Date: 09/12/2014

The Cloud Security Alliance surveyed a select group of global data privacy experts with the intention to measure attitudes towards data protection areas t...

Government Access to Information

Release Date: 07/23/2013

The survey received almost 500 responses from CSA members around the world. It found that 56% of non-US residents were now less likely to use US-based cloud ...

Cloud Consumer Advocacy Questionnaire

Release Date: 11/16/2011

The purpose of this survey was to capture the current state of data governance and data security capabilities offered by leading cloud service providers i...

CCAQIS v1.2

Release Date: 08/01/2011

The purpose of this survey is to capture the current state of data governance and data security capabilities offered by leading cloud service providers in th...