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-1.png) | International Standardization Council Charter 2023 Release Date: 08/23/2023 This charter lays out the scope, responsibilities, and roadmap for the International Standardization Council (ISC). The ISC actively searches mechanisms o... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 04/25/2022 The IoT Security Controls Matrix is relevant for enterprise IoT systems that incorporate multiple types of connected devices, cloud services, and networki... Request to download |
 | Guide to the IoT Controls Matrix v3 Release Date: 04/25/2022 The Guide to the IoT Security Controls Matrix provides instructions for using the companion CSA IoT Security Controls Matrix v3. This guide explains how t... Request to download |
 | SecaaS Working Group Charter 2021 Release Date: 07/09/2021 This charter lays out the scope, responsibilities, and roadmap for the Security as a Service (SecaaS) Working Group. The SecaaS Working Group has been cre... Request to download |
 | Disaster Recovery as a Service Release Date: 05/13/2021 Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a cloud computing service model that allows an organization to back up its data and IT infrastructure in a third... Request to download |
 | Security Guidelines for Providing and Consuming APIs Release Date: 04/30/2021 In modern application workloads, organizations are often required to integrate their application with other parties such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) prov... Request to download |
 | State of Cloud Security Concerns, Challenges, and Incidents Release Date: 03/30/2021 The use of cloud services has continued to increase over the past decade. Particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 public health crisis, many enterprises’... Request to download |
 | Earning Trust in the 21st Century Release Date: 01/26/2021 This paper addresses the technical, social, policy, and regulatory issues associated with creating trust frameworks in a Zero Trust world. Industry and gover... Request to download |
 | Healthcare Big Data in the Cloud Release Date: 07/21/2020 We are living in the information age. There are large and complex data sets generated daily. Data is generated by social media, emails, as well as numerous d... Request to download |
 | Hybrid Cloud and Its Associated Risks Release Date: 07/13/2020 Cloud computing is flourishing. Hybrid clouds, especially, have been gaining more traction as cloud customers increasingly understand that using public cloud... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 06/16/2020 In the wake of COVID-19 Health Delivery Organizations (HDOs) are rapidly increasing their utilization of telehealth capabilities like Remote Patient Monitori... Request to download |
 | Cloud Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) - Industrial Control Systems Security Glossary Release Date: 05/05/2020 The Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Glossary is a reference document that brings together ICS and IT/OT related terms and definitions. Bringing t... Request to download |
 | CSA CCM v3.0.1 Addendum - Cloud OS Security Specifications Release Date: 01/29/2020 This document is an addendum to the CCM V3.0.1 and contains a controls mapping and gap analysis between the CSA CCM and CSA's research artifact "Cloud OS Sec... Request to download |
| CSA CCM v3.0.1 Addendum to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s Gopala Krishna Committee (GKC) report Release Date: 11/27/2019 This document contains a mapping and gap analysis between the cloud security requirements of CCM V3.0.1 and those of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s Gopala... Request to download |
 | Top Threats to Cloud Computing: Egregious Eleven Release Date: 08/06/2019 The report provides organizations with an up-to-date, expert-informed understanding of cloud security concerns in order to make educated risk-management deci... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 08/03/2019 The CCM, the only meta-framework of cloud-specific security controls, mapped to leading standards, best practices and regulations. CCM provides organizations... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 06/24/2019 In this document CSA provides an approach to assess risk in SaaS cloud computing. It takes into account the security challenges in a cloud computing environm... Request to download |
 | Preparing Enterprises for the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Threats Release Date: 05/23/2019 Quantum computing, while expected to help make many advancements, will also break the existing asymmetric-key cryptosystems, thus endangering our security in... Request to download |
 | Cloud OS Security Specification Release Date: 05/07/2019 This document builds on the foundation provided by ISO/IEC 17788, ISO/IEC 19941, ISO/IEC 27000, NIST SP 500-299, and NIST SP 800-144 in the context of cloud ... Request to download |
 | Release Date: 07/09/2018 The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) provides fundamental security principles to guide cloud vendors and cloud customers seeking to ... Request to download |