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Vulnerability Data

The mission of this working group is to identify and understand the problems around vulnerability discovery, reporting, publication, tracking, and classification.
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Global Security Database Working Group Charter
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Vulnerability Data

What is the GSD?

GSD, or Global Security Database, is meant to be a fast, cooperative, royalty-free, and public collection of security information. The project uses the open source model to overcome many of the existing shortcomings of security databases such as being difficult to access, update, and restricted use of the security information. GSD is sponsored by the Cloud Security Alliance, a nonprofit organization, in order to have a neutral home for the project. We welcome anyone to request new security identifiers, submit updates to existing security identifiers, contribute ideas to the project, and drive the group to fulfill community needs around vulnerability identifiers.

Working Group Overview
Our working group meets twice a month on Tuesdays at 9am PT. We welcome anyone who would like to join, even if you would like to just listen in on your first call.

See the exact dates on the working group calendar at: https://csaurl.org/gsd-calendar

What do we discuss? 
During our meetings we typically discuss updates to the GSD project, and plan future efforts. This working group meets every other week. 

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Working Group Leadership

Josh Bressers
Josh Bressers

Josh Bressers

Product Security Technical Lead

Josh Bressers is the Vice President of Security at Anchore. Josh has helped build and manage product security teams for open source projects as well as several organizations. Everything from managing supply chains, vulnerabilities, security development lifecycle, DevSecOps, security product management, security strategy, and nearly any other task that falls under the security umbrella. Josh co-hosts the Open Source Security Podc...

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Kurt Seifried
Kurt Seifried

Kurt Seifried

Chief Blockchain Officer & Director of Special Projects, CSA

For over 2 decades Kurt has been involved in the information security field, starting with Windows and Linux and continuing on to cloud and now Blockchain. With a strong focus on security and privacy Kurt brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the CSA.

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Publications in ReviewOpen Until
Guidelines for Auditing AIJul 31, 2024
Data Privacy Engineering Working Group Charter 2024Aug 08, 2024
Using Asymmetric Cryptography to Help Achieve Zero Trust ObjectivesAug 12, 2024
Don’t Panic! Getting Real About AI GovernanceAug 25, 2024
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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.

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.

No scheduled meetings for this working group in the next 60 days.

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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.

Guidelines for Auditing AI

Open Until: 07/31/2024

Guidelines for Auditing AI presents a comprehensive framework for auditing AI systems, emphasizing the need for tr...

Data Privacy Engineering Working Group Charter 2024

Open Until: 08/08/2024

The Data Privacy Engineering Working Group (DPE WG) is chartered with the mission to integrate privacy-centric methodologie...

Using Asymmetric Cryptography to Help Achieve Zero Trust Objectives

Open Until: 08/12/2024

This paper investigates the convergence of asymmetric cryptography and Zero Trust architecture, exploring the utilization o...

Don’t Panic! Getting Real About AI Governance

Open Until: 08/25/2024

Amidst the rampant hype about AI (especially Generative AI), there is a real story about how AI systems can be used to buil...