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Enterprise Architecture Working Group Charter

Open Until: 07/13/2020

The Enterprise Architecture Working Group (EAWG) helps cloud customers and providers develop industry-recommended, secure and interoperable identity, access ...

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Critical Controls Implementation for SAP, Part 2

Open Until: 07/17/2020

SAP security documentation can be difficult to navigate and there are currently no frameworks that aligns with standard controls. This document aims to allev...

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Top Threats to Cloud Computing: Egregious Eleven Deep Dive

Open Until: 07/19/2020

The purpose of the report is to provide organizations with an up-to-date, expert-informed understanding of cloud security concerns in order to make educated ...

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Earning Trust in the 21st Century

Open Until: 07/19/2020

This paper addresses the technical, social, policy, and regulatory issues associated with creating trust frameworks in a Zero Trust world. Industry and gover...

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Cloud OS Security Specification v2.0

Open Until: 07/28/2020

Currently, most of the standards related to cloud computing security focus on information security management systems (ISMS), and corresponding certification...

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Key Management when using Cloud Services

Open Until: 08/09/2020

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for using Key Management Systems (KMS) with cloud services, whether the key management system is native t...

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Surveys



QSS Awareness Survey 2020

Time: 3 mins to complete
Deadline: June 6, 2020

The goal of this survey is to collect information from security professionals on their awareness of quantum safe issues and the approaches that can be used to address them.


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Past Survey Results

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 ...

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Cloud Security Complexity

Custom Applications and IaaS Trends 2017

Release Date: 04/07/2017

Despite the wide range of commercial off-the-shelf applications, both on-premises and cloud-based, enterprises continue to develop their own custom applicati...

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Custom Applications and IaaS Trends 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...

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Cloud Adoption and Security in India

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...

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Cloud Adoption Practices & Priorities in the Chinese Financial Sector

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 ...

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Defeating Insider Threats

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...

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Mitigating Risk

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 ...

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Identity Security

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 ...

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The Cloud Balancing Act for IT: Between Promise and Peril

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...

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SME Cloud Security

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...

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Cloud Adoption In The Financial Services Sector

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...

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Cloud Adoption Practices & Priorities

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...

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Cloud Usage: Risks and Opportunities

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...

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Data Protection Heat Index

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 ...

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Government Access to Information

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...

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Cloud Consumer Advocacy Questionnaire

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...

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CCAQIS v1.2