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CSA Research

Best practices, guidance, frameworks and tools to help the industry secure the cloud. Read our research to get your questions around cloud security answered.
Research

CSA Research is created by the industry for the industry and is both vendor-neutral and consensus driven. Our research is created by subject matter experts who volunteer for our working groups. Each working group focuses on a unique topic or aspect of cloud security, from IoT, DevSecOps, Serverless and more, we have working groups for over 20 areas of cloud computing. You can view a list of all active research working groups. To find out more about how our research is created and the process we follow you can view the CSA Research Lifecycle.

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Latest Research

SaaS Security Capability Framework (SSCF)

SaaS Security Capability Framework (SSCF)

Release Date: 04/08/2026

Now includes a security questionnaire, implementation guidelines, and machine-readable versions!

The SaaS Security Capability Framework (SSCF) defines configurable, consumable, and customer-facing security controls provided by SaaS vendors to their customers. 

The SSCF represents a...
Zero Trust Guidance for Achieving Operational Resilience

Zero Trust Guidance for Achieving Operational Resilience

Release Date: 04/06/2026

Resilience is the ability to remain viable amidst adversity. This publication provides practical organizational and architectural guidance for leveraging Zero Trust principles to achieve operational resilience across modern enterprises. The research extends beyond traditional BC/DR into a...
The Rise in Unstructured Data and AI Security Risks

The Rise in Unstructured Data and AI Security Risks

Release Date: 03/30/2026

As organizations generate increasing volumes of files, documents, communications, and logs across the cloud, they're also pushing traditional security models beyond their limits. This survey report, commissioned by Thales, explores how unstructured data defines both the operational value and...