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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.
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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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Agentic AI Identity and Access Management: A New Approach

Agentic AI Identity and Access Management: A New Approach

Release Date: 08/18/2025

Agentic AI is pushing the boundaries of automation, autonomy, and decision-making at machine speed. But traditional identity and access management (IAM) protocols, designed for static applications and human users, can’t keep up.

This publication from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) introduces a...
Zero Trust Guidance for Small and Medium Size Businesses (SMBs) - Korean Translation

Zero Trust Guidance for Small and Medium Size Businesses (SMBs) - Korean Translation

Release Date: 08/07/2025

This localized version of this publication was produced from the original source material through the efforts of chapters and volunteers but the translated content falls outside of the CSA Research Lifecycle. For any questions and feedback, contact research@cloudsecurityalliance.org.

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CAIQ Lite (Legacy)

CAIQ Lite (Legacy)

Release Date: 07/30/2025