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CAVEaT™

The Joint CSA-MITRE Cloud Adversarial, Vectors, and Threats (CAVEaT) Collaboration to develop, curate, and host a cloud specific threat model to assist Cloud Security practitioners with threat-based analysis.
Cloud Adversarial Vectors, Exploits, and Threats (CAVEaT™): An Emerging Threat Matrix for Industry Collaboration
Cloud Adversarial Vectors, Exploits, and Threats (CAVEaT™): An Emerging Threat Matrix for Industry Collaboration

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CSA and the MITRE Corporation have established the Cloud Adversarial, Vectors, Exploits, and Threats (CAVEaT) collaboration to develop, curate, and host cloud specific threat models to assist Cloud Security practitioners with threat-based analysis.

Working Group Leadership

Kurt Seifried
Kurt Seifried

Kurt Seifried

Chief Innovation Officer, CSA

For over two decades, Kurt has excelled in information security, starting with Windows and Linux, and advancing to cloud computing and AI. With a strong focus on AI security, privacy, and open source, Kurt brings extensive expertise to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

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Dr. Mari Spina
Dr. Mari Spina

Dr. Mari Spina

Sr. Principal Cybersecurity Engineer / Cloud Security Capability Leader at MITRE

Dr. Spina joined MITRE in 2014 and has been supporting a multitude of MITRE Federal sponsors including DHS, DoD and the IC in the area of Cloud Security. At MITRE, she is a Principle Cybersecurity Engineer, leads the Cloud Security Capability Area, and teaches Cloud Security for the MITRE Institute. She has also taught many Information Technology courses for the George Washington University schools of engineering and business. Before joini...

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Alex Kaluza
Alex Kaluza

Alex Kaluza

Research Analyst, CSA

Publications in ReviewOpen Until
Navigating the Human Factor: Understanding and Addressing Resistance to AI AdoptionJun 09, 2025
AICM mapping to NIST 600-1Jun 16, 2025
Analyzing Log Data with AI ModelsJun 20, 2025
Agentic AI Identity and Access Management: A New ApproachJul 03, 2025
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Who can join?

Anyone can join a working group, whether you have years of experience or want to just participate as a fly on the wall.

What is the time commitment?

The time commitment for this group varies depending on the project. You can spend a 15 minutes helping review a publication that's nearly finished or help author a publication from start to finish.

Open Peer Reviews

Peer reviews allow security professionals from around the world to provide feedback on CSA research before it is published.

Learn how to participate in a peer review here.

AICM mapping to NIST 600-1

Open Until: 06/16/2025

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) invites public peer review of its draft mapping between the AI Controls Matrix (AICM) and NIST 600-1. This initiative suppo...

Analyzing Log Data with AI Models

Open Until: 06/20/2025

In a Zero Trust environment, logs play a critical role in the visibility and analytics cross-cutting capability. Architectu...

Agentic AI Identity and Access Management: A New Approach

Open Until: 07/03/2025

Traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, primarily designed for human users or static machine identities v...