Cloud 101CircleEventsBlog
Discover the latest cloud threats, evolving AI risks, and how to stay ahead. Don’t miss CSA’s free Cloud Threats & Vulnerabilities Summitregister now!

CSA Research

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.

Contribute to CSA Research

Peer reviews allow security professionals from around the world to collaborate on CSA research. Provide your feedback on the following documents in progress.

Latest Research

CCM Video Series: DCS - Datacenter Security

CCM Video Series: DCS - Datacenter Security

Release Date: 03/24/2025

In this presentation we introduce the Data Center Security (DCS) domain, which consists of fifteen control specifications essential for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to secure the physical infrastructure and environment hosting Cloud Service Customers' (CSCs) data and applications. This domain...
CSA Code of Conduct to EU Cloud Code of Conduct Mapping

CSA Code of Conduct to EU Cloud Code of Conduct Mapping

Release Date: 03/24/2025

Navigating General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance requirements can be challenging. Fortunately, Codes of Conduct (CoCs) provide a straightforward way for organizations to showcase their compliance.

The EU Cloud CoC for GDPR Compliance includes 86 provisions detailing best practices...
Cloud Key Management Working Group Charter 2025

Cloud Key Management Working Group Charter 2025

Release Date: 03/18/2025

Cloud services are becoming ubiquitous in all sizes, and customers encounter many obligations and opportunities for using key management systems with those cloud services. However, as an area of emergent technical focus, there is little independent analysis and guidance in the public domain for...