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Privacy Working Group
The Privacy Working Group advocates Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), providing commentary and guidance about legislation, standards and frameworks. This group consolidates best practices from a variety of PETs and provides thought leadership about hybrid implementations that leverage multiple technologies.
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Latest Research developed by this Working Group
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How Participation Works
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Explore the Topics Covered
You can explore the specific Subgroups within this Working Group below. You can join the Working Group to contribute broadly, or join one or more Subgroups to engage more deeply in specific topics aligned with your interests.
Confidential Computing
This group aims to represent a radically more secure way to isolate and attest computing workloads through confidential computing.
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
This subgroup advances the secure use of FHE in cloud environments, enabling organizations to process and analyze data while it remains encrypted by developing practical guidance, security models, standards, and implementation practices.
Working Group Leadership
Meet the leaders guiding this Working Group's direction, research priorities, and community collaboration.
Josh Buker
Research Analyst, CSA
Ryan Gifford
Senior Research Analyst, CSA
Working Group Co-Chairs
Mark Bower
VP, Product Management at Anjuna
Mark Bower has two decades of experience at leading security companies in the U.S., Australia, U.K., and Germany. He is a noted expert in data protection, data privacy, and information risk reduction. Before joining Anjuna, where he owns product strategy for advanced confidential computing, he headed product and business strategy for Comforte AG, Voltage Security (acquired by HPE) and the Atalla HSM business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. ...
Daniella Alpher
Lattica.ai
Daniella Alpher is an experienced tech marketer who specializes in strategy, branding and content marketing. Before focusing on marketing for cybersecurity and AI, she worked as a television producer at ABC News in New York, where she produced news segments for Good Morning America. Daniella has led marketing at CoolaData, Iguazio, DeepKeep, RevealSecurity and PeerSpot. She holds an MBA from INSEAD.
Joseph Wilson
Joseph Wilson is co-Chair for the Cloud Security Alliance's (CSA's) Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Working Group (WG), which was formed to address industrial deployment and adoption of FHE and to help the industry navigate this branch of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Leeds, and an MPhys in Experimental Physics from the University of York. He is currently Head of Strategic In...
Steve Foster