Working Group
Privacy
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.
Working Group Leadership
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
| Publications in Review | Open Until |
|---|---|
| Comparing FHE and Other PETs | Apr 17, 2026 |
| MLOps Threat Model | Apr 17, 2026 |
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.
Virtual Meetings
Attend our next meeting. You can just listen in to decide if this group is a good for you or you can choose to actively participate. During these calls we discuss current projects, and well as share ideas for new projects. This is a good way to meet the other members of the group. You can view all research meetings here.
Apr
15
CSA Privacy - FHE Workstream
Join the call using this zoom link: https://csaurl.org/privacy-call
Apr
21
CSA Privacy - Confidential Computing Workstream
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Apr
29
CSA Privacy - FHE Workstream
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May
5
CSA Privacy - Confidential Computing Workstream
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May
13
CSA Privacy - FHE Workstream
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May
19
CSA Privacy - Confidential Computing Workstream
Join the call using this zoom link: https://csaurl.org/privacy-call
May
27
CSA Privacy - FHE Workstream
Join the call using this zoom link: https://csaurl.org/privacy-call
Open Peer Reviews
Peer reviews allow security professionals from around the world to provide feedback on CSA research before it is published.